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Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.
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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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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In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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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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From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
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We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.
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Have you ever found anything that gives you relief? Yes. A drink.
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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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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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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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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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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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There is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song -- the day of days when spring at last holds up her face to be kissed, deliberate and unabashed. On that day no wind blows either in the hills or in the mind.
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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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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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Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.
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New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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