Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. WHITESemi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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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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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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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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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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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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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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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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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
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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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