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30 E. B. White Quotes & Sayings
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30 E. B. White Quotes & Sayings
American
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Born: 11 July 1899. Died: 1 October 1985 |
Writer
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After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
E. B. White
Live
Born
Die
Life
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. White
Account
Always
Another
Complicated
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Car
Else
Everything
Get
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Democracy
Half
More
People
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E. B. White
I See
Nothing
Promising
See
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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
E. B. White
Becomes
Christmas
Difficult
Every
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White
Cracked
Found
Genius
More
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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.
E. B. White
Arise
Between
Day
Desire
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. White
Facts
Form
Get
Great
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
E. B. White
Agreement
Among
Countries
Disagreement
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E. B. White
Bad
Hard
Hard Work
Health
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. White
Along
Friend
Good
Good Writer
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
E. B. White
Enemy
Most
Things
Time-Consuming
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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.
E. B. White
About
Beyond
Bury
Child
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. White
Luck
Men
Mention
Presence
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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.
E. B. White
About
Bright
Bright Future
Feel
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E. B. White
Become
Before
Eighteen
Father
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White
Act
Faith
Grammar
Trick
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Chickens
Discouraging
Know
Literature
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
E. B. White
Bean
Day
Gets
He
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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
E. B. White
Always
Been
Highly
Most
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
E. B. White
Childhood
Doorway
Full
Met
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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.
E. B. White
Avoid
Change
Common
Instinctively
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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. White
About
Absolutely
American
Believes
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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.
E. B. White
Even
Gives
Grapes
Joy
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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.
E. B. White
Across
Education
English
Getting
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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.
E. B. White
Acquainted
Club
Easier
He
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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.
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Arms
Debates
Disarmament
Imperative
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. White
Farmer
Good
Handy
Less
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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.
E. B. White
Acceptance
Adjustment
Age
Atom
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E. B. White Quotes & Sayings