Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
E. B. WHITEMost 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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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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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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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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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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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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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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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.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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