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- Nov 07, 2020
Pen Quotes
Short lines on the tool behind every written word.
These quotes look at the pen as more than an object, from comparisons with modern word processors to the idea that picking one up to write is itself a kind of confrontation. See related lines under Book.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
- Illustrations
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why would you not have a robot that looks like Abraham Lincoln? Why would it look like an erector set? Why use a computer with a punchcard, when you could use one with a touch pen on the screen? Why a car, when you could use a jetpack?
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing since I was 11. But I don't write with a pen, I just sing at the piano with one eye shut like a pirate.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with UKIP and the extreme right - Mr. Le Pen, Wilders - they are really good at making an analysis of the problem. And they immediately go completely overboard in providing a solution that would never work and is morally completely unacceptable.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
- Diary
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- Nov 07, 2020