Loneliness is a strange gift.
E. B. WHITEI have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended.
More E. B. White Quotes
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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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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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty-everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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