You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
E. B. WHITE“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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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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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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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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The best writing is rewriting.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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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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