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Famous quotes containing the word blank:

    ... when I exclaim against novels, I mean when contrasted with those works which exercise the understanding and regulate the imagination.—For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers ...
    Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

    I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are supposed to return. They say, “Please fill out and return the enclosed envelope,” and the enclosed envelope is always one-quarter of an inch too small.
    Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    It will be worth it, if in the end I manage
    To blank out whatever it is that is doing the damage.
    Then there will be nothing I know.
    My mind will fold into itself, like fields, like snow.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)