An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
E. B. WHITELoneliness is a strange gift.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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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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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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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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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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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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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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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