I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. WHITEA candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north…As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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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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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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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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From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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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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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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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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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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