I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
E. B. WHITEThe world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
More E. B. White Quotes
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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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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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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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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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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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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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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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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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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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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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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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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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