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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. White
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E. B. White
Age: 86 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 11
Died: 1985
Died: October 1
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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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new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.
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A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. 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. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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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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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.
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Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?
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Never hurry and never worry!
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A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
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Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.
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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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