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.
E. B. WHITEYou 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?
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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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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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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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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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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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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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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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