Writing On The Wall Quotes

• The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

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  Ernest Hemingway

  Wall   Writing   Editors  

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

  1881

• He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.

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  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wall   Writing   World  

  1844

• Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

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  Charles Stross

  Running   Wall   Real  

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.388, Penguin

  1574

• Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book, isn't it?' Just because I'm Jewish doesn't mean I've memorized the Old Testament.' It's the Writing on the Wall. "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end; thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." It's a portent of doom--it means the end of an empire.

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  Cassandra Clare

  Art   Wall   Book  

  3169

• Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

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  Edward Abbey

  Wall   Writing   Two  

  3045

• Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation.

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  Charlotte Bronte

  Wall   Character   Writing  

  880

• Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

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  Cy Twombly

  Wall   Writing   Graffiti  

  "'I work in waves'". Interview With Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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• If you look at Iraq and Afghanistan's situations, they are quickly becoming much like our reservations. They will have puppet governments funded and controlled by a U.S. Government that siphoned off their resources. You don't have to be an English major to read the writing on the wall; I am in here as a warning to others, just like those men who are in Guantanamo are a warning to others - if you stand up to us you face these same consequences.

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  Leonard Peltier

  Wall   Writing   Men  

  Source: montanapioneer.com

  4651

• No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.

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  Larry Hagman

  Wall   Writing   Curves  

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• It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

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  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wall   Writing   Men  

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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