Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
E. B. WHITETo achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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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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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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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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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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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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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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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.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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