Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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“What are they, and where are you?” screamed Wilbur. “Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?” “Salutations are greetings,” said the voice. “When I say ‘salutations,’ it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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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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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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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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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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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. 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.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer’s time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer’s time isn’t worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
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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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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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