Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
E. B. WHITEPeople are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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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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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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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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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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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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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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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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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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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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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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Never hurry and never worry!
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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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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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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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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