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- The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and if…
- Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in…
- Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.
- Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft…
- The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a…
- A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want…
- This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of…
- There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city…
- Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it. But for that…
- Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.
- Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be…
- We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever…
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