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.
E. B. WHITEEarly 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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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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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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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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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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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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Geese 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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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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English 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 believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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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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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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