A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. WHITEI am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
More E. B. White Quotes
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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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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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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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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.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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