I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
E. B. WHITEI don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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