Oh, I never look under the hood.
E. B. WHITEExtreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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