I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
E. B. WHITEI am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. “Salutations!” said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. “Salu-what?” he cried. “Salutations!” repeated the voice.
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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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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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