Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
E. B. WHITEEvery morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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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.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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