Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
E. B. WHITEAlways be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
E. B. WHITEHabitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
E. B. WHITEI am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
E. B. WHITEGenius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. WHITEThere is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
E. B. WHITEBooks 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.
E. B. WHITEThe so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
E. B. WHITEYou’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
E. B. WHITEI see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. WHITEWriting is both mask and unveiling.
E. B. WHITEYou 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?
E. B. WHITEBe obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
E. B. WHITEAnd then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. “Salutations!” said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. “Salu-what?” he cried. “Salutations!” repeated the voice.
E. B. WHITEA good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. WHITEIf a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. WHITEBefore the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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