From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
E. B. WHITESalutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
More E. B. White Quotes
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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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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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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