You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
E. B. WHITEI get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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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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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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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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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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I’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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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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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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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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