One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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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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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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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The best writing is rewriting.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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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 an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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