Good deeds never go unpunished.
E. B. WHITECreation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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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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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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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.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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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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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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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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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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