Os guerreiros de ca¤   na‹  o buscam mavo¤  rticas damas para o enlace epitala"  mico; mas antes as preferem do¤  ceis e facilmente troca¤ v eis por pequeninas e vola¤  teis folhas de papel a que o vulgo chamara¤   dinheiroöo 'curriculum vitae'da Civiliza c° a‹  o. The warriors here do not seek out mettlesome women for epithalamic conjunction, but prefer them docile and willing to exchange with ease their favours for those small and deliquescent leaves of paper which the masses call moneyöthe curriculum vitae of Civilization.

-Andrade, Ma¤ r io de
  Macuna|¤  ma (O Hero¤  i sem nenhum cara¤  ter) (Macunaima, 1984), ch.9.

I am a free man, I do not need to copy Petrarch or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, without artifice,Igotowork and earnmy living, my well- being, and my fame.What do Ineedmore? Witha goose quill and a few sheets of paper I mock the universe.

-Aretino, Pietro
Quoted in  J H Plumb (ed)  The Horizon Book of the Renaissance (1961, new edn by Penguin,1982).

He stood, a point on a sheet of green paper proclaiming himself the center, with no walls, no borders anywhere; the sky no height above him, totally un- enclosed and shouted: Let me out!

-Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
  The Animals in that Country,'Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer'.

   I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks.Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

-Bainbridge, Dame Beryl Margaret
  In D L Kirkpatrick (ed) Contemporary Novelists.

I run the paper purely for the purpose of making propaganda, and with no other motive.

-Baron
  Evidence to the Royal Commission on the Press.

Just foraword'neutrality'öaword which inwartimehas so often been disregardedöjust for a scrap of paper Great Britain isgoing to make war on a kindred nation who desires nothing better than to be friends with her.

-Bethmann Hollweg,Theobald von
  On Britain's reaction to the German invasion of neutral Belgium, 4  Aug. Quoted in British Documents on the Origins of the War1898^1914 (1926), vol.11.

My scrofulous French novel On grey paper with blunt type!

-Browning, Robert
  Dramatic Lyrics,'Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister'.

This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the paper that bears his name upon it as well as mine: 'We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German naval agreement, as symbolic of the desire of our two people never to go to war with one another again.'

-Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville
  Speech on the signing of the Munich  Agreement, Heston airport, 30 Sep.

Averbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

-Goldwyn, Sam(uel) originally  Schmuel Gelbfisz
Attributed. Quoted in  A Scott Berg Goldwyn (1989).

Say, it's onlya paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea.

-Harburg, E(dgar) Y(ip)
  'It's Only a Paper Moon' (with Billy Rose, music by Harold Arlen).

It is a commercial paper, a paper of business, and it is conducted on principles of trade and business. It floats with the tide: it sails with the stream. It has no other principle.

-Hazlitt,William
  Of  The Times. In the Edinburgh Review, May.

Ihadthepaperbut Ididnot read it becauseIdidnot want to read about the war. I was going to forget the war. I had made a separate peace.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Frederic Henry.  A Farewell to  Arms, ch.34.

Onemust go after themodelling like a flycrawling overa piece of paper.

-Ingres,Jean Auguste Dominique
Attributed aphorism. Quoted in P  Vale¤  ry Degas, Danse, Dessin (1938).

Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busyand boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

-Locke,John
  Essay Concerning Human Understanding, bk.2, pt.1, section 2.

Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritöthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.

-MacLeish, Archibald
  A  Time to Speak,'Of the Librarian's Profession'.

  All the so-called powerful reactionaries are paper tigers, for theyare cut off from their people.Was not Hitler a paper tiger, and was he not overthrown? US imperialism has not yet been overthrown, and it has atomic bombsöbut I believe that it too will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

-Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung
  Speech to Communist International Congress, Moscow, Nov.

Your eight-page paperöbehind which you huddle, Bawling through the megaphone of big type: 'This is I, the giant.'

-Masters, Edgar Lee
  Spoon River Anthology,'Editor  Whedon'.

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegoryöthe world? Then we pygmies must be content to have our paper allegories but ill comprehended.

-Melville, Herman
  Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nov.

Paper blushes not.

-Middleton,Thomas
  The Changeling (with William Rowley), act 3, sc.4.

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  Sexus, ch.1.