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Letter "P" » pen
«For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.»
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
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Writer)
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Keywords:
been,
For,
for all,
have,
his pen,
might-have-been,
might,
pen,
penned,
sad,
saddest,
these,
tongue,
tongued,
words
«In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.»
«I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Keywords:
bar,
cause of death,
confident,
ennoble,
ennobled,
ennobles,
ennobling,
fulfill,
lessons,
no Time,
pen,
repeated,
successfully,
tasks
«I bought a seven dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.»
«Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!»
Author: Ogden Nash
(
Writer)
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Keywords:
appointments,
endures,
flies,
George,
George I,
Here is,
list,
List of,
ointments,
pen,
typewriter,
typewriters,
woes
«In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.»
Author: Pearl S. Buck
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About:
Writing
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Keywords:
desk,
desks,
fresh,
fresher,
freshest,
his pen,
lying in wait,
mood,
paper,
pen,
penned,
ream,
take up,
the next,
writer,
writing desk,
writing paper
«It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
brickbat,
developed,
greatly,
industrious,
journalist,
mightier,
offensive,
paving,
paving stone,
pen,
public servant,
regretted,
sakes,
servant,
sought
«I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(
Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
blackest,
dip,
dipping,
dips,
dip into,
falling,
his pen,
ink,
inked,
inking,
inkpot,
pen,
penned
«I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.»
«It is not permitted to a man who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(
Dramatist,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
chisel,
chisels,
chisel in,
disaster,
mould,
originality,
pen,
permitted,
to a man