You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
E. B. WHITEDemocracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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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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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
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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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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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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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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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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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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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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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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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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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