Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

About George Ade

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George Ade (February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944) was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, librettist, and playwright who gained national notoriety at the turn of the 20th century with his "Stories of the Streets and of the Town", a column that used street language and slang to describe...

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.

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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

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If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.

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The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

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Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.

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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

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Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell.

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