Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
E. B. WHITEEvery morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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 good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
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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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I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty-everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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The best writing is rewriting.
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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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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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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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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