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Ink Quotes

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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
Jack Kerouac

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2.
Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.
Lu Xun

3.
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
Alan Watts

4.
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink
Andy Stanley

5.
Our lives are written in disappearing ink.
Michelle Cliff

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I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.
Camille Desmoulins

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Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.
Henry de Montherlant

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Memory is more indelible than ink.
Anita Loos

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I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.
Steve Erickson

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I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.
James Robertson

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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
Alfred Nobel

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I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.
Guru Nanak

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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
Alexandre Dumas

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Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.
C. S. Lewis

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The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.
Isamu Noguchi

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I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
Janet Flanner

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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.
John Milton

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I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.
Jewel

20.
And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
Vikram Seth

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The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but from a source extrinsic to physics and chemistry altogether. Indeed, in both cases, the message transcends the properties of the medium. The information in DNA also transcends the properties of its material medium.
Stephen C. Meyer

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I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.
Georges Simenon

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The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand.
Adrian Rogers

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Retarded kids are the best. When they ask for an autograph I just fake sign a picture and tell them that it's in invisible ink and it will show up later. They totally buy it. It saves me a fortune in markers.
Zach Braff

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International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.
Eric Ambler

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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
James Joyce

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T. S. Eliot

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What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink.
John Olsen

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I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.
Erin Morgenstern

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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
Ludwig von Mises

31.
Whats a gonzotic frenzy? Well its me in the throes of an ink splattering attempt to capture the feeling I have at that particular time.
Ralph Steadman

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Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.
Pierre Soulages

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My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.
Ernst Mach

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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
Mark Twain

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There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

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Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.
Mark Strand

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Brush and ink are only servants of thoughts and emotion. They should follow your emotion and change with the emotion.
Wu Guanzhong

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Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
Aberjhani

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Just snow and sapphire and ink.
Stephenie Meyer

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That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
Patrick Rothfuss

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The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.
Mark Twain

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The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
Douglas William Jerrold

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The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers. Haldane, Wright, and Fisher are the pioneers of population genetics whose main research equipment was paper and ink rather than microscopes, experimental fields, Drosophila bottles, or mouse cages. Theirs is theoretical biology at its best, and it has provided a guiding light for rigorous quantitative experimentation and observation.
Theodosius Dobzhansky

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My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.
Pierre Loti

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It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
Horace Walpole

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Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.
William Shakespeare

47.
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
Jim Bishop

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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think.
Lord Byron

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Fool! Nothing but black ink runs through my veins!
Hiromu Arakawa

50.
I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.
Mitch Daniels