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.
E. B. WHITEEnglish usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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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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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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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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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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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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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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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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The best writing is rewriting.
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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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“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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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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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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