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.
E. B. WHITENo one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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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?
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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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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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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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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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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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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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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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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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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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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