Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
E. B. WHITEI believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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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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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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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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Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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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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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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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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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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