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. WhiteTags: new-york-city
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E.B. WhiteYou 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. WhiteDo you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?"
"Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it. But for that matter I don't understand how a spider learned to spin a web in the first place. When the words appeared, everyone said they were a miracle. But nobody pointed out that the web itself is a miracle."
"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle-it's just a web."
"Ever try to spin one?" asked Dr. Dorian.
The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
E.B. WhiteAnalyzing humor is like disecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E.B. WhiteTags: humor
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.
E.B. WhiteLife is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.
E.B. WhiteTags: books
I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else
E.B. WhiteRemember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.
E.B. WhiteTags: writing
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