Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
E. B. WHITEIs there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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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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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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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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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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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.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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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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