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.
E. B. WHITEThere is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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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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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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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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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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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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