I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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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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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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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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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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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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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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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