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.
E. B. WHITEThe whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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The best writing is rewriting.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended.
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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer’s time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer’s time isn’t worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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