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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.

~E. B. White

Topics: Been Bent Days Effect Ill Knowingly Need Once Over Skin Walks Weather Wet Who Without Write

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Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.

~E. F. Benson

Topics: Alike Any Been Brought Common Common Sense End Genius Gift Guide Had Her Infallible Life Mother Private Private Life Public Queen Rare Sense She Simplicity Time Up Utmost Victoria Which Woman

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All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

~E. F. Benson

Topics: Always Any Apply Been Days Directly Earlier Ever Failed Grey Had Intelligence Language Learning Make Me Never Possessed Received Regards Sky Sunshine Teaching Vividly

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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

~E. Franklin Frazier

Topics: Been Education In The Past Information Inspiration Little Much Past Too Too Much

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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Anything Been Bonus Book Came Case Did Done Drafts Eight Exception Fair Few Fluent Gave God Happened Me Months Particularly Seemed Seven Six Takes Think World Write Written Years I Think

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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Agree Always Answer Been Days Everyone Interested Major Philosophical Questions Seem Undergraduate

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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Always Answers Been Books Literature Me Other Seems

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If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

~E. L. James

Topics: Again Been Book Experience First First Love Love Married Nice Through Vicariously Years You

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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.

~E. L. Konigsburg

Topics: Been Books Get Happens Ideas Know Me People Places Read Them Things

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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Allowed Been Eyes Freedom Grown-Up Look Only People Practise Who

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