She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writers. Charlotte was both. - E.B. White

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

Its not often a true friend comes around

There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
...Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.

nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.