E. B. White quotes - page 2

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. (E. B. White)
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. View quote
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. View quote
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. View quote
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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. View quote
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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention. View quote
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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed. View quote
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Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep. View quote
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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. View quote
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There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don't want. View quote
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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. (E. B. White)
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. View quote
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Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. View quote
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. View quote
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. View quote
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky. View quote
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I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure. View quote
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I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow. View quote
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. View quote
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go. View quote
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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. (E. B. White)
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult. View quote
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. View quote
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. View quote
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. View quote
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