I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
E. B. WHITEWe’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. 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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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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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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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. 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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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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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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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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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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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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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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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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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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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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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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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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