You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
E. B. WHITEThere is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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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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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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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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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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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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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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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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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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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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