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Elwyn Brooks White

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

Christmas Difficult Every Year Through Wrappings Year

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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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A writer is like a bean plant – he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

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The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

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