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Have you ever found anything that gives you relief? Yes. A drink.
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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Elwyn Brooks White
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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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A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.
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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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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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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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Even now with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.
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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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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.
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As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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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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