Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
E. B. WHITESafety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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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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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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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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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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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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