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.
E. B. WHITETo achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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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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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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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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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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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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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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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
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Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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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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