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"Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself."
"The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases."
"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."
"One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?"
"The world is full of paper, write to me"
"You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town."
"So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace may shift to Europe. Evidence of this is provided, for instance, by [Adolf] Hitler's recent interview given to a French paper. In this interview, Hitler seems to attempt to say peaceful things. But this "peacefulness" of his is so thickly interspersed with threats against France and the Soviet Union that nothing remains of the "peacefulness"."
"Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper."
"Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand. ... The possibility of creation from paper is infinite."
"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."
"A paper town for a paper girl."
"You will go to the paper towns and never come back."
"I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too."
"And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said."
"Don't start your day until you have it finished on paper first."
"Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish."
"This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns"
"Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper."
"I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about."
"What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow."
