A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
E. B. WHITEI 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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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
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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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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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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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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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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.
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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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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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