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E B White Quotes

The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change Picture Quote #1

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust Picture Quote #1

We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life’s routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse , and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise Picture Quote #1

After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die Picture Quote #1

It isn’t silence you can cut with a knife any more, it’s interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage Picture Quote #1

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention Picture Quote #1

There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another Picture Quote #1

The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil’s advocate, enthusiast Picture Quote #1

There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about Picture Quote #1

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street Picture Quote #1

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Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car Picture Quote #1

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year Picture Quote #1

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement Picture Quote #1

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New york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing Picture Quote #1

I don’t understand it, and I don’t like what I don’t understand Picture Quote #1

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will Picture Quote #1

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long Picture Quote #1

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life Picture Quote #1

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning Picture Quote #1

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When snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles Picture Quote #1

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions Picture Quote #1

Life’s accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up Picture Quote #1

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities Picture Quote #1

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus Picture Quote #1

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind Picture Quote #1

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The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change. (E B White Quotes) People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust. (E B White Quotes) We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life’s routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse , and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise. (E B White Quotes) After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die. (E B White Quotes) It isn’t silence you can cut with a knife any more, it’s interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage. (E B White Quotes) I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. (E B White Quotes) A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user’s dreams than to express a precise meaning. (E B White Quotes) It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention. (E B White Quotes) There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. (E B White Quotes) The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil’s advocate, enthusiast. (E B White Quotes) There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about. (E B White Quotes) English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street. (E B White Quotes) Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man. (E B White Quotes) 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. (E B White Quotes) 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. (E B White Quotes) Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car (E B White Quotes) To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year (E B White Quotes) There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement (E B White Quotes) New york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing (E B White Quotes) I don’t understand it, and I don’t like what I don’t understand (E B White Quotes) Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will (E B White Quotes) His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long (E B White Quotes) Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life (E B White Quotes) A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning (E B White Quotes) When snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles (E B White Quotes) Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions (E B White Quotes) Life’s accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up (E B White Quotes) In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities (E B White Quotes) A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus (E B White Quotes) The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind (E B White Quotes)

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