Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
E. B. WHITEOne of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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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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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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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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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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