E. B. White Quotes

• If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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  Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

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  Tags in Wonder, Presence

• Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

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  Tags in Reading, Book

• To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

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  Tags in Through, Become

• His words leap across rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

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• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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• Commuter – One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; a man who shaves and takes a train, and then rides back to shave again.

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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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  Tags in Doorway, Met

• There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

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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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• 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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• English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education — sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.

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  Tags in Writers And Writing, Language

• A writer is like a bean plant – he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

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  Tags in Writer, Plant

• The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

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• Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

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  Tags in Else, Somewhere

• 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.

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  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Outwit, Bright

• 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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  Tags in Weather, Skin

• One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

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  Tags in Time-Consuming

• Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

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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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E. B. White (66)

Birth:	11th July, 1899
Death:	1st October, 1985
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

About

E. B. White was an American writer. He was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide, The Elements of Style, which is commonly known as "Strunk & White". He also wrote books for children, including Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan. Charlotte's Web was voted the top children's novel in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, not for the first time.

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