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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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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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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 see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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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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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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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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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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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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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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