You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
E. B. WHITEThe city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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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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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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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“What are they, and where are you?” screamed Wilbur. “Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?” “Salutations are greetings,” said the voice. “When I say ‘salutations,’ it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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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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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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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 nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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