The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. WHITEDemocracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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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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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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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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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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“What are they, and where are you?” screamed Wilbur. “Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?” “Salutations are greetings,” said the voice. “When I say ‘salutations,’ it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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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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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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