All E. B. White Quotes
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White in
Life
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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.
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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
E. B. White
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. White in
Science
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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.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
E. B. White
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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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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
E. B. White
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. White
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