A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
E. B. WHITEI admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north…As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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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 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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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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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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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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