The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.
E. B. WhiteDentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.
E. B. WhiteThere is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are momentsโmoments of sustained creationโwhen his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
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