To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
E. B. WHITEI believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
More E. B. White Quotes
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. 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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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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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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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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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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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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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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It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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