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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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The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.
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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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I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by so much as a dictionary: one thing leads to another and the first thing you know he has a stuffed chair and is fast asleep in it.
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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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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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... with men it's rush, rush, rush, every minute. I'm glad I'm a sedentary spider. What does sedentary mean? asked Wilbur. Means I sit still a good part of the time and don't go wandering all over creation. I know a good thing when I see it, and my web is a good thing. I stay put and wait for what comes. Gives me a chance to think.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered
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In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.
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Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
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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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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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Don't write about Man write about a man.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.
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When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.
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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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