All words are written in the same ink, 'flower' and 'power, ' say, are much the same, and though I might write 'blood, blood, blood'all over the page, the paper would not be stainednow would I bleed.
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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Henry Ward Beecher
A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
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Anonymous
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....
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Alexander Trocchi
Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.
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Joseph Bruchac
A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.
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Jennifer Donnelly
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All words are written in the same ink, 'flower' and 'power, ' say, are much the same, and though I might write 'blood, blood, blood'all over the page, the paper would not be stainednow would I bleed.