The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

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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...

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...

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his...

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his...

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

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

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

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...

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 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...

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my...

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my...

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his...

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

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

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

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. ......

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them...

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them...

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line...

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line...