Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
E. B. WHITELoneliness is a strange gift.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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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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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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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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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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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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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
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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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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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