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The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

Teju Cole

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Teju Cole
Nigerian - Writer
Born: June 27, 1975

Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then edited, then rewritten, then given to kings for them to take their favorite parts, then rewritten, then re-rewritten, then translated again, then given to the pope for him to approve, then rewritten, then edited again, the re-re-re-re-rewritten again...all based on stories that were told orally 30 to 90 years AFTER they happened.. to people who didnt know how to write... so...

David Cross

Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time.

Gore Vidal

Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!

Michael Crichton

Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten

R.C. Bannon

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Stephen Sondheim

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

Phyllis A. Whitney

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

Phyllis A. Whitney

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

Margaret Atwood

And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.

Daniel Libeskind

Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

Emilie Autumn

The only things that erased my lonliness were written works

Novala Takemoto

We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you're reading them and you want to buy a book or a ticket for a movie that's reviewed on the site, you can do that without leaving our site.

Jay Chiat

Dad’s especially need to remember that what they say to their daughters is written in Sharpie. It can’t be erased.

Sue Enquist

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

Michael Crichton

Don't forget: when you start a website, it's not yet a trusted site. So you have to bring people from a trusted site to your site to build up the trust in your site.

James Altucher

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