Oh, I never look under the hood.
E. B. WHITE
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.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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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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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.
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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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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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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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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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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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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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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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