It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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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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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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The best writing is rewriting.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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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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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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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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