I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. WHITEOnly a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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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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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
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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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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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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.
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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.
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I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty-everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
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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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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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