Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
E. B. WHITEI am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
More E. B. White Quotes
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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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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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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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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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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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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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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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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