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Paper Quotes (page 9)

His talent was to express his reader? most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper. Ken Follet
But when a man has once broken through the paper walls of everyday circumstance, those unsubstantial walls that hold so many of us securely prisoned from the cradle to the grave, he has made a discovery. If the world does not please you, you can change it. H. G. Wells
Haruki Murakami quote: "Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. ..."
Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload. Haruki Murakami
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at..."
Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Cornelia Funke quote: "Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of..."
Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper. Cornelia Funke
And I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom. Charles Dickens
See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation. Michael Chabon
You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This is the only feeling. I feel like the paper on which my mood chart is printed. Augusten Burroughs
Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives - darn, durn, goldurn, goshdad, goshdang, goshawful, blast, consarn, confound, by Jove, by jingo, great guns, by the great horn spoon (a nonce term first cited in the Biglow Papers), jo-fired, jumping Jehoshaphat, and others almost without number - but even this cautious epithets could land people in trouble as late as the 1940s. Bill Bryson
One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling. P. J. O'Rourke
Martin Amis quote: "My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of..."
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. Martin Amis
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time. Cormac McCarthy
Ray Bradbury quote: "When they give you lined paper, write the other way."
When they give you lined paper, write the other way. Ray Bradbury
Some people can seem perfect... everything about them can, on paper, be just right. Until you get to know them. Really know them. Then you find out, in the end, while they might be perfect to every one else, they just aren't right for you. Meg Cabot
We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored. Neil Gaiman

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