A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
E. B. WHITEIn every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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The best writing is rewriting.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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