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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

E. B. White

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
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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Always Lookout Presence Wonder
I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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Admire All Anybody Anything Gut Want Write
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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Beauty Clear Dare Poet Remove Unzip
A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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Intensify Meaning Mystification Pleasure Poet Withhold
I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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Believe Dream Faith People Poet Sing Song
The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Communication Establish One Problem Self Whole
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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Bad Happen Happening Most Much Nothing Peace People State Think
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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Alert Condition Demand Finally Ideal Mind Produce Read Sort Under Work
When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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Chance Far Have Make Only Say Something Sure
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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All Anything Ask Been Deserve Done Friend never You
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Consume Enemy Great One Thing Time
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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Amd Lose Mad Nothing Often Think Winter
Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Gift Loneliness Strange
Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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Age Been Image Mental Myself never Nineteen Old Problem Shed Special
To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Archive Being Effect None Style

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