The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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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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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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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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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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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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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty-everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
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Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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