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Quote by Terri Guillemets
Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother

Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies. – Terri Guillemets

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It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. – Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989

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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. – Samuel Johnson, “Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor,” Boswell, Life of John

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Journal: fitting your heart and soul into ruled lines. – Terri Guillemets

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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. – Karl Kraus

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