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.
E. B. WHITEOld age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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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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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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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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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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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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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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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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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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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’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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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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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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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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