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«We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.»
Author: Edith Lovejoy Pierce
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Books,
New Year,
Opportunity
| Keywords:
blank, blanked, blanker, blanks, chapter, chapters, first book, pages, the book, The New Year
«The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.»
«Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.»
«We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest / blank; and the world tells us what we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says / Work; and to us it says / Seem! To you it says / As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labor is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says / Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labor. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.»
Author: Olive Schreiner
(Writer)
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approximate, approximates, Armed force, armed forces, blank, Human heart, plastic, shapes
«When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.»
«The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
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blank, clamoring, ink, miraculous, pages
«Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
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blank, blanked, blanker, blanks, bleeds, easy, forehead, paper, piece, Piece By Piece, piece of writing, stare, stares, writing, writing paper
«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.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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blank, invent, in writing, obligation, palpable, prose, reads, reference, references, roughest, sheet, sheet of paper, trade, truer, with reference to
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