I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
E. B. WHITEI 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.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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The best writing is rewriting.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
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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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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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