I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. WHITEAnd 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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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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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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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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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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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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