By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
E. B. WHITEThe best writing is rewriting.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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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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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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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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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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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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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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