![There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.](/assets/img/quote-photos/theres-no-agony-like-getting-started-you-sit-in-a-room-biting-pencils-looki.jpg)
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My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that. David Sedaris
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That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it. Charles Kuralt
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Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter. Daniel Handler
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While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. Billy Collins
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take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning Charles Bukowski
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Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.
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I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.
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The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy! Allen Ginsberg
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We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
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Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by. Amanda Lindhout
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Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene. Paul Feig
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My lower back problems really began in 1989 on the One For All tour, which was agony for me. Barry Gibb
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How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter. Edgar Allan Poe
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You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.
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...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.
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I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. William Faulkner
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Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong. Virginia Euwer Wolff
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy! Harold Feinstein
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Losing stays with you a lot more than winning stays with you. Yes, there are positive feelings that come with winning. But you prefer not to live with that losing feeling that stays with you for a long time. Al Groh
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Newport stuck its neck out and did the heavy lifting. Some of the other ports resent us for that. There probably are some hard feelings out there. Al Pazar
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If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go in your sins, they are your livery. Your ruin is your argument for mercy; your poverty is your plea for heavenly alms; and your need is the motive for heavenly goodness. Go as you are, and let your miseries plead for you. Charles Spurgeon
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When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy. Diane Lane
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As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips. Diane Keaton
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There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness. Denis Diderot
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A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions Eleanor Roosevelt
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I can't put my feelings into words. I don't know what's going on. My words won't flow right now.
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Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life. Ed O'Brien