I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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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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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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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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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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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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And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. “Salutations!” said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. “Salu-what?” he cried. “Salutations!” repeated the voice.
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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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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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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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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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