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«The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.»
«There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.»
«No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.»
«Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
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higher degree, higher education, high hand, pen, to a higher degree, to the highest degree
«QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
commonly, equivalent, everlasting, goose, implement, implemented, implementing, implements, obsolete, pen, quill, quills, steel, The Quill, torture, wield, wielded, wields, yielded
«Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men»
«Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results»
«None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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as many, cussedness, fountain, fountain pen, pen, The Fountain
«So, I sit at the hotel at night and I think of something that's funny. Or, If the pen is too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of wasn't funny.»
«People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
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autograph, autographed, autographing, autographs, cartoonist, cartoonists, check, contract, lift, pen, These Days
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