No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
E. B. WHITEI’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty-everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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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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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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