Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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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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 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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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 admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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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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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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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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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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