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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.

E. B. White

When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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Chance Far Have Make Only Say Something Sure
A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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Despot Drunken Eloquent Freedom Hold Joke Poet Preach Take Writer
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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Attention Country Duty Writer
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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Charm Condition Desirable Devotees Fatal Local Nationalism Prepossess Self Sufficiency Two
A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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Anatomy Grammar Medical Reason Same Schoolchild Student Study Taught
No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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Come Country Live Lucky One Should Unless
Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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Business Creation Distraction Forgiving Great Merely Part Small
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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All Hope Book Love World
I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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Else Encourage Go Know Still Where
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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Childhood Doorway Full Met Mind Open People Since World
Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Freedom Oood Prefer Safety Well
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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Estimate Harder Keep Nothing Of Time Track
Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Gift Loneliness Strange
In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Every Queen Floozy Touch
The best writing is rewriting.
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Best Rewriting Write
A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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Intensify Meaning Mystification Pleasure Poet Withhold

Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.

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