Loneliness is a strange gift.
E. B. WHITEPrejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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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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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.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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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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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. 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.
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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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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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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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