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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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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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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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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New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine.
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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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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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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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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.
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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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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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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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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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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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