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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

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“What are they, and where are you?” screamed Wilbur. “Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?” “Salutations are greetings,” said the voice. “When I say ‘salutations,’ it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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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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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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Bias Capacities Escape Habit Open Reveal Self Something Style Writer
Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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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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Climb Clitch led North Problem Road Rose Start Stuart Toward
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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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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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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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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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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Abomination Country Everyone Misspeklled People Person Sight Well
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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