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.
E. B. WHITEOne of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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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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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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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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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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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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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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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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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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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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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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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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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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The best writing is rewriting.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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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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