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And I dream of the days when work was scrappy, And rare in our pockets the mark of the mint, When we were angryand poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  'Song of Defeat'.

And people in life hardly seem definite enough to appear in print. Theyare not good or bad enough, or clever or stupid enough, or comic or pitiful enough.

- Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett
  Orion, no.1,'A Conversation'.

It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand.I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition.

- Daniel Defoe
  Robinson Crusoe.

  How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

- Karl Kraus
Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).

But thisnovel wasnot a trumpet for Women's Liberation. It described many female emotions of aggression, hostility, resentment. It put them into print. Apparently what many women were thinking, feeling, experiencing came as a great surprise.

- Doris May ne  e Tayler Lessing
The Golden Notebook, preface to new edition.

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

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

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

- (Adeline) Virginia ne  e Stephen Woolf
  The Common Reader,'The Modern Essay'.