Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
E. B. WHITEI admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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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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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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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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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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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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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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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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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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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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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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