Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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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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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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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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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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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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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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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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