Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
E. B. WHITEMost people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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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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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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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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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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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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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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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 believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. “Salutations!” said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. “Salu-what?” he cried. “Salutations!” repeated the voice.
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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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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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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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