Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
E. B. WHITESailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
More E. B. White Quotes
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The best writing is rewriting.
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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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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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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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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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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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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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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