Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
E. B. WHITEI don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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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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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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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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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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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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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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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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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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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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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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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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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