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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Before Bloom Come Seed Through
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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Childhood Doorway Full Met Mind Open People Since World
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Even Give Grape Laundry Long Only Pick Run Sort Us
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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Attitude Decently Distrustful Intelligence Patronizing Reader Write
I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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Corporate Earth Management Nervous
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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Estimate Harder Keep Nothing Of Time Track
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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Along Come Fiend Good Someone True Writer
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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All Hope Book Love World
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Crack Found Genius More One Whole
The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Communication Establish One Problem Self Whole
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.
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City Country Day Each Locust Person Something Somewhere
There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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Begin Cockpit Start Train Trim Usually Wait
I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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Admire All Anybody Anything Gut Want Write
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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Always Blue Cast Humble Infinite Ingenuity Lord Make Shadow
A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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Anatomy Grammar Medical Reason Same Schoolchild Student Study Taught
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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Condition Ideal Paper Put Wait Without Word Work Writer

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

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