Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
E. B. WHITEIf 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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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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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
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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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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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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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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. “Salutations!” said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. “Salu-what?” he cried. “Salutations!” repeated the voice.
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