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.
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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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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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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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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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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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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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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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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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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