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.
E. B. WHITE
There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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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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Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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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 always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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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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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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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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