There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
E. B. WHITEIs there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
More E. B. White Quotes
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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Early 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.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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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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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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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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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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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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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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