You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
E. B. WHITEWriting is hard work and bad for the health.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. 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.
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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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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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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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Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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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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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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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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