A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
E. B. WHITEYou can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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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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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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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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 Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
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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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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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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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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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