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.
E. B. WHITEI get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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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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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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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.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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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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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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