Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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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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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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Sailors 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.
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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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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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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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Never hurry and never worry!
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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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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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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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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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