You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
E. B. WHITEA candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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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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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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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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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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