All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
E. B. WHITEAll that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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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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“What are they, and where are you?” screamed Wilbur. “Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?” “Salutations are greetings,” said the voice. “When I say ‘salutations,’ it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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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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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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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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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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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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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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