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E. B. White Quotes

E. B. White quotes about life

American Writer July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985

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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. E. B. White
You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing...after all, what's a life anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die...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. E. B. White
A block or two west of the new City of Man in Turtle Bay there is an old willow tree that presides over an interior garden. It is a battered tree, long suffering and much climbed, held together by strands of wire but beloved of those who know it. In a way it symbolizes the city: life under difficulties, growth against odds, sap-rise in the midst of concrete, and the steady reaching for the sun. Whenever I look at it nowadays, and feel the cold shadow of the planes, I think: "This must be... E. B. White
The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. E. B. White
E. B. White quote: "But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life..."
But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination. E. B. White
E. B. White quote: "Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past..."
Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it. E. B. White
E. B. White quote: "Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car."
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. E. B. White
E. B. White quote: "After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little..."
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. E. B. White
I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema, there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles. E. B. White
E. B. White quote: "Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself,..."
Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up. E. B. White
E. B. White quote: "Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is..."
Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep. E. B. White

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