If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. WHITEI’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty-everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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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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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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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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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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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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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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