There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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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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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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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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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 still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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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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Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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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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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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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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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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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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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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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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