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.
E. B. WHITEA good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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The best writing is rewriting.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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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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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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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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