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Paper Quotes (page 19)

The music was more than music- at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous. Those powerful moments of true knowledge that we have to paper over with daily life. The music tapped the back of our terrors, too. Things we'd lived through and didn't want to ever repeat. Shredded imaginings, unadmitted longings, fear and also surprisingly pleasures. No, we can't live at that pitch. But every so often... Louise Erdrich
Alain de Botton quote: "To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and..."
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity. Alain de Botton
As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself. John Steinbeck
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works. Ernest Hemingway
Rising rage and extreme bewilderment had swelled the noble breast of Mr. Pickwick, almost to the bursting of his waistcoat, during the delivery of the aboce defiance." From chapter 3 of Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens
I believe that what separates humanity from everything else in this world? spaghetti, binder paper, deep-sea creatures, edelweiss, and Mount Mc. Kinley? is that humanity alone has the capacity at any given moment to commit all possible sins? --Hey Nostradamus! Doug Coupland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman quote: "(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is..."
(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I love her handbag. Inside are papers and her wallet and cigarettes and at the bottom, where she never looks, there is loose change, loose mints, specs of tobacco from her cigarettes. Sometimes I bring the bag to my face, open it and inhale as deeply as I can. Augusten Burroughs
In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art -- when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant -- is less like a cocktail party than a tank full... John Gardner
Raymond Chandler quote: "A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)"
A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles) Raymond Chandler
Tom Robbins quote: "The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has..."
The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature. Tom Robbins
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper"
Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper Dorothy L. Sayers
I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing. Ernest Hemingway
You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me. Dave Eggers
Almost all good writ in begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something -- anything - down on paper. A friend of mine says that the first draft is the down draft -- you just get it down. The second draft is the up draft -- you fix it up. You try to say what you have to say more accurately. And the third draft is the dental draft, where you check every tooth, to see if it's loose or cramped or decayed, or even, God help us, healthy. Anne Lamott

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