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E. B. White
Age: 86 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 11
Died: 1985
Died: October 1
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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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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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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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America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious.
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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
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Even now with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast.
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Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
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Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.
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When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen.' I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word.
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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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You're terrific as far as I am concerned.
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Einstein is loved because he is gentle, respected because he is wise. Relativity being not for most of us, we elevate its author to a position somewhere between Edison, who gave us a tangible gleam, and God, who gave us the difficult dark and the hope of penetrating it.
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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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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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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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