"Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!"
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"Here's the weird thing about the Murdoch family; They believe what they read in the papers."
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"We buy our own toilet paper even here in the White House."
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"I wish I could just project everything on the paper."
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"The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them."
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"They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years."
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"No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper."
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"My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing."
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"You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em"
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"A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse."
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"The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people."
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"Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks."
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"If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored."
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"I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder."
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"Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes."
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"Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper."
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"After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the one on the other. Various noises continued outside, but he didn't know whether they were real or not. He then talked to his table for a week to see how it would react."
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"Count my own money, see the paper cut fingers?"
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"Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written."
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"I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out."
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