I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
E. B. WHITEWhen 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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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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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 despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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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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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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Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
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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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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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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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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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