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" A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy. "
E. B. White
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" Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. "
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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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" We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. "
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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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" The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. "
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" A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. "
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" English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. "
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" There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. "
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" I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. "
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" Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. "
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" I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright. "
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" The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. "
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" To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. "
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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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Right
" Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. "
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Victim
New
" The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. "
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Childhood
Never
" It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members. "
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" The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. "
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" I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. "
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" I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. "
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" The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. "
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" It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. "
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" Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. "
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" Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. "
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" Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. "
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" Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. "
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" All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. "
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" Writing is hard work and bad for the health. "
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" The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative. "
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