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.
E. B. WHITESemi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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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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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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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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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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The best writing is rewriting.
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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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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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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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