I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. WHITEDemocracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
More E. B. White Quotes
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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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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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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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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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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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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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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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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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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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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