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. WHITEA good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
More E. B. White Quotes
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The best writing is rewriting.
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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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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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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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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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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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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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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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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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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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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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