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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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The best writing is rewriting.
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Best Rewriting Write
A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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Despot Drunken Eloquent Freedom Hold Joke Poet Preach Take Writer
Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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Contemplate Country Eman People Person Place Second Sick Stomach
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Ferris Nothing Promising Space View Wheel
There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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Account Another Complicated Lead Limit Thing
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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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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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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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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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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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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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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