I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
E. B. WHITEA despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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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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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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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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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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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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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north…As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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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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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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