A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
E. B. WHITEGeese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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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 poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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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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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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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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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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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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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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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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