Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
E. B. WHITEIn 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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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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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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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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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 is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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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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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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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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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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