Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
E. B. WHITETrust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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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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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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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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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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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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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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