Papers Quotes

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See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation. — Michael Chabon
In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when… — Douglas Adams
Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still… — Tess Gerritsen
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
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
I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'. — John Green
America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the… — Nicholas Sparks
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up… — John Green
I am an academic," said Professor Mandalay, "and thus have no finely developed senses that would be comprehensible to anyone who has not ever needed… — Neil Gaiman
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! — Groucho Marx
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day. — William Makepeace Thackeray
We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping,… — Kelly Corrigan
The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful… — Margaret Atwood
I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge. — Jordan Sonnenblick
A tall blonde entered the room, wearing a yellow sash that marked her as advocate. Two men followed her, carrying papers. She was lean and… — Ilona Andrews
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. — George Orwell
In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe… — John Gardner
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may… — Albert Camus
...The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in… — Gene Stratton-Porter
I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill… — Ernest Hemingway

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