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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Fact Form Get Great Opinion Prejudice Saver Time
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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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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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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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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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Even Give Grape Laundry Long Only Pick Run Sort Us
Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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Abomination Country Everyone Misspeklled People Person Sight Well
When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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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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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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