I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
E. B. WHITEI have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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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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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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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.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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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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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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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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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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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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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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