Loneliness is a strange gift.
E. B. WHITEA schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
More E. B. White Quotes
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The best writing is rewriting.
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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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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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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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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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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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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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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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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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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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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. 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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