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• The palest ink is better than the best memory. -- Chinese Proverb
• Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature.
  This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays....
• Colored invisible ink. -- Polish inventio
• A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• I'm afraid there's been a change of plan. I'm off to the kitchen to hack my head off with a big knife.
  -- Edmund to George : Ink and Incapability...
• A good memory does not equal pale ink.