While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

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Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.

—Annie Dillard

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There are only two seasons—winter and Baseball.

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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

—Elizabeth Bowen

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Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.

Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me… Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.

—William Shakespeare

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