Extreme 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.
E. B. WHITEBefore the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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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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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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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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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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