Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north…As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
E. B. WHITEA good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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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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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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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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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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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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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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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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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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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.
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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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