Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
E. B. WHITEThe 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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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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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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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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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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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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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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Never hurry and never worry!
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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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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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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