I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
E. B. WHITESailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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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 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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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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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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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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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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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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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