Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
E. B. WHITEBooks 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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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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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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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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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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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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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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