Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
E. B. WHITEBefore the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
More E. B. White Quotes
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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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 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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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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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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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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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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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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