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“Solitude is like a sharpener. It makes you rotate against the blade edge shaving away your worn surfaces. Eventually, you come out sharp and dandy.”

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Author:Anoir Ou-chad

“There are quite a few people around us performing the job of being our own personal sharpeners. Never a dull moment with them.”

People Performing Dull Job Moment Sharpener Personal Sharp

Author:Jeffrey G. Duarte

“On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.”

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Author:Maira Kalman

“I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.”

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Author:Ben Folds

“I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.”

Believe Long Faces Purpose I Believe Fire Saws Fronts Bird Bills Pencils Fly Away Sharpener Pencil Sharpeners

Book:Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

“Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.”

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Author:Ben Affleck

“Some people may be famous for creating a pencil sharpener. I'm famous for my tits.”

People May Creating Pencils Sharpener Pencil Sharpeners

Author:Katie Price

“The thing I hear about a lot is when people over-sharpen their pencil with a single-blade pocket-sharpener and then when they put the pencil to the page, their tip breaks and pencil points always break irregularly. It always gets all jagged and you have to refresh the point. That's a common complaint.”

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Author:David Rees

“I never thought I would make a living as a pencil-sharpener. The first goal was: I don't want to lose money. And then the goal was: I want to see if 100 people buy my pencils. I just kept upping the benchmarks.”

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Author:David Rees

“I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.”

World Pencils Sharpener Pencil Sharpeners

Author:Truman Capote

“Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.”

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Author:John Mayer

“Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!”

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Book:Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”

“I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God”

Writing Hands Charity Making A Difference Pencils Love Letter Calcutta Giving To Charity Charity And Giving Inspirational Charity Little Hands Sharpener Sharp Pencils Pencil Sharpeners

Author:Mother Teresa

“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”

“Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.”

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Book:How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants

Source: How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants

“The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.”

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Author:Robert Benchley