You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
E. B. WHITESemi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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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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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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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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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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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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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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