Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
E. B. WHITEIf a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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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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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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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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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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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 am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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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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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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The best writing is rewriting.
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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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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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