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E. B. White
Age: 86 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 11
Died: 1985
Died: October 1
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Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.
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Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.
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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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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.
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Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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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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As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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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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There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.
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Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.
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The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.
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But we have received a sign, Edith - a mysterious sign. A miracle has happened on this farm... in the middle of the web there were the words 'Some Pig'... we have no ordinary pig. Well, said Mrs. Zuckerman, it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.
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