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.
E. B. WHITECreation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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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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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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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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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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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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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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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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