E. B. White Quotes
48 E. B. White quotes:
"To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year"
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"It helped us, getting a chance to get some games under our belt. Obviously, getting a chance to play at home helped."
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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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"Be obscure clearly."
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"Writing is hard work and bad for the health."
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"Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts."
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"When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad."
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"We have 523 people who already live in that area. We'd like to make it a lot easier for them to invite their friends to church without having to drive the 15-16 miles to get here."
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"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind"
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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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"Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor."
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"A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough."
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"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."
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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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"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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"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
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"The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it."
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"A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring."
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"There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement."
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"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens"
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