“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.
E. B. WHITEFrom morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
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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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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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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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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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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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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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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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“What are they, and where are you?” screamed Wilbur. “Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?” “Salutations are greetings,” said the voice. “When I say ‘salutations,’ it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.
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