A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
E. B. WHITEAnd then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. “Salutations!” said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. “Salu-what?” he cried. “Salutations!” repeated the voice.
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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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And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. “Salutations!” said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. “Salu-what?” he cried. “Salutations!” repeated the voice.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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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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If 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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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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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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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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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended.
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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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