"The strongest memory is not as strong as the weakest ink."
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"Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter."
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"I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood."
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"Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink."
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"Ink is the great cure for all human ills."
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"It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word."
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"The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink."
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"...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink."
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"It's easy to actually get the ink on the page, but somehow I've gotta find a way to play this. And I have to find a way to emotionally survive playing this."
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"He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)"
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"Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night"."
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"Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight."
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"I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic."
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"When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story."
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"My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat"
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"How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!"
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"This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid."
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"Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time."
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"Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]"
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"The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it."
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