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.
E. B. WHITEOh, I never look under the hood.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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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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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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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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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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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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