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“My strip is not like the kind that depends on variety or new characters. I’ve got pretty much the same characters and basic idea that I had so many years ago. I want to keep the strip simple. I like it, for example, when Charlie Brown watches the first leaf of fall float down and then walks over and just says, ‘Did you have a good summer?’ That’s the kind of strip that gives me pleasure to do.”

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source: quoted in Barnaby Conrad’s Introduction, in Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life (Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books, 2002), 22.

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medium: Nonfiction

“Heat, like an article of invisible clothing, makes us want to take it off.”

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source: The Book of Disquiet (New York: Pantheon Books, 1991), 43.

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medium: Autobiography

“I wear black because I’m comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it’s hot I’m comfortable in light blue.”

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source: Larry King Live, CNN, November 26, 2002.

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medium: Interview

“You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent down, sprang up again. They passed like cloud shadows downhill…the boys of summer, running.”

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source: Dandelion Wine (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), 21.

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medium: Fiction

“…and because the light will enlarge your days, your dreams at night will be as strange as the jars of octopus you saw once in a fisherman’s boat under the summer moon…”

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source: “Late Spring,” in A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (New York: Harcourt Bracy & Company), 27.

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medium: poetry

notes: from Mary Karr's Twitter feed

“There is no word in the language for end-of-summer sadness, but the human spirit has a word for it and picks up the first sound of its approach.”

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source: “Cold Weather,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1944), 349.

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medium: essay

notes: White wrote this essay in January 1943.

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

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source: recounted by Edith Wharton in A Backward Glance (New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934), 249.

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medium: autobiography

via: Fannie Bushin

“It amazes me that most people spend more time planning next summer’s vacation than they do planning the rest of their lives.”

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source: Get What You Want! (Executive Books, 1998).

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medium: self-help

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