Paper Quotes

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He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for… — Pearl S. Buck
I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. — Andy Rooney
I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them. — Jasper Fforde
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear… — Charles Dickens
something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on… — Lynda Barry
but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make… — Lynda Barry
The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a… — Charles de Lint
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper. — Cornelia Funke
I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who… — Cory Doctorow
The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers… — Yehuda Amichai
Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on… — Dean Koontz
The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth… — Ben Elton
Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents… — Augusten Burroughs
When a horse falls, foam comes out of its mouth. When it falls, the legs of the horse thrash and the horse is no good...… — Maureen Medved
For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the… — Markus Zusak
Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important. — Margaret Atwood
From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this… — Russell Brand
As he passed me, he leaned to Curran and handed him a paper fan folded from some sort of flyer. Curran looked at the fan.… — Ilona Andrews
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. — Martin Amis
He also tried to block the doorway when she left him. My mother ducked under his arm, ran to her car, and drove away. I… — Sloane Crosley
We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when… — Joshua Ferris
Ok. don't panic. Don't panic. It's only a VISA bill. It's a piece of paper; a few numbers. I mean, just how scary can a… — Sophie Kinsella

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