You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
E. B. WHITEBefore the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. “Salutations!” said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. “Salu-what?” he cried. “Salutations!” repeated the voice.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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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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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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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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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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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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