Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
E. B. WHITETo achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.
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The 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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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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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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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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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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