A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
E. B. WHITEWilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
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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 whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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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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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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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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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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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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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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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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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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