"Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?"
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"I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth."
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"Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!"
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"Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. Consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing. In other words, the rest of the world sends about $2 billion a day net of something.We got to send them something in return, don't we. So we send them little pieces of paper."
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"Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating."
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"Drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper."
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"It's natural. I freestyle, meaning that I just rap. I might put words on paper, but I just put a beat on my rap, and go off the top of my head. It's something I've been able to do for a long time."
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"I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop."
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"All art is but dirtying the paper delicately."
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"The paper is patient, but the reader is not."
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"You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it."
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"The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate."
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"If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation."
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"Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency."
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"To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout."
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"That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied."
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"So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on."
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"Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy."
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"I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music."
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"Maybe all the strings inside him broke."
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