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.
E. B. WHITEStuart 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.
More E. B. White Quotes
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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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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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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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