In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
E. B. WHITEWilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
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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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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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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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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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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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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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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 always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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“What are they, and where are you?” screamed Wilbur. “Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?” “Salutations are greetings,” said the voice. “When I say ‘salutations,’ it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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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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