Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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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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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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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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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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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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