"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."
-E. B. White
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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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"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."
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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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"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car."
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"To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year."
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"I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
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