We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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 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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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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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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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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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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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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