Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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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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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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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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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty-everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
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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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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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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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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. 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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