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Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about… — John McWhorter
I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away… — Stieg Larsson
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. — Paul Theroux
Texts are always in flux. — Robert Darnton
The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see… — Paulo Coelho
Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this… — Tristram Stuart
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. — Tom Stoppard
In this day and age of texts, Twitter, and Facebook, we are very rarely surprised by anything anymore - something always leaks out and gets… — Brad Goreski
At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected… — J. G. Ballard
Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. — Jonathan Zittrain
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books. — Felice Picano
Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction. — Ridley Scott
Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in… — Willard Boyle
When I was young, I read everything I could lay my hands on, but the Scots in my storybooks spent their time fighting glorious battles,… — Theresa Breslin
In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that gives them a… — Theresa Breslin
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts. — Siri Hustvedt
Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking. Changing. Fussing. This… — Mona Simpson
For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance,… — Michael Rostovtzeff
They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the… — Alan Dundes
I used to send Tony Romo texts throughout the season just to encourage him, just to wish him luck and just to tell him to… — Emmitt Smith

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