An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
E. B. WHITENo one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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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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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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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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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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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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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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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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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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