In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
E. B. WHITEThe rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer’s time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer’s time isn’t worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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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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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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