When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
E. B. WHITENo one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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