A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. WHITEChildren 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.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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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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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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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 see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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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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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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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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