E. B. White Quotes

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E. B. White

Profession : Writer

Birth : July 11, 1899

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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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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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

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Be obscure clearly.

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

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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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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.

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

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

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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

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

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

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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

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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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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

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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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