There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. WHITELoneliness is a strange gift.
More E. B. White Quotes
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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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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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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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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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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