It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
E. B. WHITEI admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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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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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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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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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer’s time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer’s time isn’t worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
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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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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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