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.
E. B. WHITEYou can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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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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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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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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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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