"If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day."
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"The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it."
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"It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it."
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"Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?"
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"Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs."
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"We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals."
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"And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together."
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"The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper."
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"I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper."
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"Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one."
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"I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters."
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"I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm. Or it could become a pile of napkins."
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"A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious."
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"You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were."
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"Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted."
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"Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper."
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"Don't throw me teddy-bears, I'm 23! I'm a man! Throw me condoms or money! Paper, not coins."
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"There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper."
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"I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future."
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"Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street."
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