Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
E. B. WHITEGeese 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.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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Books 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.
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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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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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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There 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.
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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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