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?
E. B. WHITEEverything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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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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It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
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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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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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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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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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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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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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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.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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