E. B. White Short Quotes

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He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

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An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.

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

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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

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

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

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

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Salutations; it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning

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It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.

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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

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Have you ever found anything that gives you relief?"... "Yes. A drink

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People are animals, and the city is full of people in strange plumage.

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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.

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

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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

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"It's broccoli, dear."
"I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."

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Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.

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I hold one share in the corporate earth and am uneasy about the management.

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After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

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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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Well, said Stuart, a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.

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Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.

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

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Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

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I rather expect that from now on I shall be travelling north until the end of my days.

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Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

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The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

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Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else.

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