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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.

E. B. White

We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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Anyone Born Eating Heaven Help Little Perhaps Something
Oh, I never look under the hood.
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Hood never Took Under
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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Attention Country Duty Writer
Use the smallest word that does the job.
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Job Smallest Use Word
A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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Bias Capacities Escape Habit Open Reveal Self Something Style Writer
Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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Alive Book Company Good Hiding Manage People Sad Stay Times
Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Freedom Oood Prefer Safety Well
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Democracy Half More Person Recruitment Suspicion Time
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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All Hope Book Love World
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Bad Hard Health Work Writing
You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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Die Dissect Frog Joke Tend
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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Friend Itself Like Tremendous Web Wove
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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Anything Background Children Game Hand Net Over Them Throw Word
Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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Cros Erase Life Like Pen Put Writing
Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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Broccoli Child Hell Mother Say Spinach
Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Author Been College Color Only Prove Semi

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