If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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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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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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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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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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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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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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