I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.
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.
The best writing is rewriting.
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means "sickening to contemplate"; the second means "sick at the stomach." Do not, therefore, say "I feel nauseous," unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
You're terrific as far as I am concerned.
I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and the prognostications and the turmoil, the disagreements and the fateful decisions and agreements and the plans and the programs and the threats and the counter threats, then you close your eyes and the sea dispatches one more big roller in the unbroken line since the beginning of the world and it combs and breaks and returns foaming and saying: "So soon?" E. B. White "On A Florida Key
Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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.
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
Loneliness is a strange gift.
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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