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Books 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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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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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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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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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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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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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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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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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.
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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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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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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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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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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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