To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
E. B. WHITEGood deeds never go unpunished.
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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
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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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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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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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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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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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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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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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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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