Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
E. B. WHITEMake the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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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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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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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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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north…As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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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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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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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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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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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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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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