It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
E. B. WHITEA 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.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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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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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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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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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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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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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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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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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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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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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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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer’s time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer’s time isn’t worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
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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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