Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
E. B. WHITEI 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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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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Most 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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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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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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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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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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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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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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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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