In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.
E. B. WhiteWhen 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.
E. B. WhiteHalf a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
E. B. WhiteHumor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
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