"I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book."
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"The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities."
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"That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies."
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"Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?"
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"I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong."
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"My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures."
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"Paper has more patience than people."
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"For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It's very expensive."
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"So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go."
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"There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket."
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"Words are the litmus paper of the mind."
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"The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals it is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted."
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"I can lose three million dollars because it's just paper. Thus, my lifestyle is not dependent up the stock market."
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"I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people."
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"All reactionaries are paper tigers."
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"At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . ."
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"I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place"
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"Be true to what you said on paper."
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"Our civilization depends largely on paper."
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"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."
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