There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. WHITEIt is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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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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Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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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.
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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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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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