A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without...

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without...

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely...

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely...

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act,...

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act,...

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has...

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has...

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a...

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a...

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ......

Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ......

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but...

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but...

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought...

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought...

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway...

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway...

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed...

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed...

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today...

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today...

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the...

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the...

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to...

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to...