In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
E. B. WHITE
The best writing is rewriting.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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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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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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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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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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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 one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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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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From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
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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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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 arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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