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.
E. B. WHITEAnd 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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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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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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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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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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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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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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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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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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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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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.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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