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E. B. White
Age: 86 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 11
Died: 1985
Died: October 1
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.
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It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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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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Wilbur burst into tears. I dont want to die, he moaned. I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun.
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Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.
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From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.
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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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Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.
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Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.
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I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else
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Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.
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It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
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