I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
E. B. WHITEEvery 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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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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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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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north…As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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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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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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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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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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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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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