Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. WHITENauseous. 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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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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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 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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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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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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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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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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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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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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