No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
E. B. WHITEEarly summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
More E. B. White Quotes
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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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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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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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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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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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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