Loneliness is a strange gift.
E. B. WHITEWhen I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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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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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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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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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Everything 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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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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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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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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