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.
E. B. WHITEYou’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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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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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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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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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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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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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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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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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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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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