No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
E. B. WHITEIt can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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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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The best writing is rewriting.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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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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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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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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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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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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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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To 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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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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