There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. WHITESailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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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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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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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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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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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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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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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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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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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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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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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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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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