Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. WHITEBooks hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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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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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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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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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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