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"Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers."
"Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat andpotatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others actually raise crops of grain to be distilled into brandy."
"Imitating paper isn't the goal; the goal is surpassing paper."
"Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published."
"The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted."
"If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash."
"We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed."
"The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story the way I see it. I sometimes feel I am slogging through quicksand when I write."
"Rachel, what do you do? Put an ad in the paper for trouble? (Glenn)"
"Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on."
"Turn the paper. A piece looks better if every mark is not made while the surface is in the same orientation."
"I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music."
"... she called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy."
"Every paper girl needs at least one string."
"All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too."
"I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper."
"I always read the papers, the political bits."
"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."
"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."
"It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened."
