Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
E. B. WHITEExtreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended.
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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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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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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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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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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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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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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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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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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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