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"I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling."
"Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not."
"All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control."
"When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block."
"I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper."
"In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write."
"Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose."
"They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat. "Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper. "Make Harry get it." "Get the mail, Harry." "Make Dudley get it." "Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley."
"Of course not,” said Hermione. “Everything we need is here on this paper."
"The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic."
"Even if you're just making a list of all the things you have to do, putting your pen to paper gets it out of your head. It puts you in this place of release."
"It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions."
"While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper."
"A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma."
"I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to."
"As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to."
"Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere."
"I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels."
"I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know."
"The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed."
