From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
E. B. WHITEI 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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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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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.
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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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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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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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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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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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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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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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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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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