Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. WHITEWhy 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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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.
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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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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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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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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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