A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
E. B. WHITEThe best writing is rewriting.
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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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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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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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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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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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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In 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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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north…As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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