Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
E. B. WHITEMother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty-everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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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.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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The best writing is rewriting.
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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