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Absorbing life like blotting paper

Several speakers use blotting paper as a metaphor for how eagerly they absorbed books or influences as an Adolescent, soaking things up almost without effort.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Paper
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Nov 07, 2020

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

Quotes by Will Self

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I love using blotting paper when people are oily in the T-zone.

Quotes by Manny MUA

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

Quotes by John Millington Synge

Looking Back
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Nov 07, 2020

Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.

Quotes by Conrad Veidt

Looks
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Nov 07, 2020

When I travel, I have to have blotting sheets. It's so much better to remove the oil than to cover it up because then your skin just looks cakey.

Quotes by Bethany Mota

Nov 07, 2020

I was an avid collector of Elvis' early stuff; for a young singer, he was an absolute inspiration. I soaked up what he did like blotting paper. It's the same as being in school - you learn by copying the maestro.

Others use it more literally, describing the practical Looks habit of using blotting paper to manage oily skin during a long day.

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