Who answers when you knock on wood? - J. Drummond, People, 1969

Who answers when you knock on wood? – J. Drummond, People, 1969

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Woodworkers are knotty. – Author unknown

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The civil law cannot provide but by common measures… all their rules are made by as common a measure as they can, and they are the best rules that have the fewest exceptions: the best Carpenters make the fewest chips: but some there must be. – Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or The Rule of Conscience, 1659

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A knotty piece of timber must have smooth wedges. – English proverb quoted by John Ray, 1670

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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry…. Both are very hard work. Writing something is almost as hard as making a table. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. Both are full of tricks and techniques. Basically very little magic and a lot of hard work… – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, interview, The Paris Review, 1981

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