The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
E. B. WHITEFrom 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.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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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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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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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 have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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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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Never hurry and never worry!
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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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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