In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
E. B. WHITETo achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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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?
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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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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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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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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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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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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Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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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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Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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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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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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