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.
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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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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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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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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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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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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