E. B. White Quotes About Life
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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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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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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I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.
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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.
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