Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
E. B. WHITENo one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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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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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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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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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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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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