"The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper."
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"If I am used to looking at a paper chart and finding information that I know approximately where I'm going to look at that and now I have to go to a computer and find it a different way."
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"When you have a paper based system, you are relying on your memory to a large extent about the patient. Now the paper records can have various kinds of ticklers."
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"My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now."
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"I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper."
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"I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning."
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"The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review."
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"I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here, 'Cause I remember it all, all, all... too well..."
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"I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore?"
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"You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time."
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"The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper."
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"Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?""
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"I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender."
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"The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper."
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"Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed."
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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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"I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought."
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"Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper."
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"No, I don't read the papers. I just look at the pictures."
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"I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books."
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