Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
E. B. WHITEReading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
More E. B. White Quotes
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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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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I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty-everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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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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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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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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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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