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Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.

One Man's Meat (1942)

Was born on: 11.07.1899
About Author: American writer

What gives us joy

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting laundry.

What is a commuter?

Commuter - one who spends his life
In riding to and from his wife;
A man who shaves and takes a train,
And then rides back to shave again.

Poems and Sketches (1982)

Life

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

Charlotte's Web

One upright man

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the one thing left to us in a bad time.

Letter to M. Nadeau (1973)

What do spiders do?

When 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.

Letter to Carrie A. Wilson (1951)

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