By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
E. B. WHITEThe main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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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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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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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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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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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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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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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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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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