I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
E. B. WHITE
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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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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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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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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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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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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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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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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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer’s time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer’s time isn’t worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
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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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