I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
E. B. WHITESemi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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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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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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