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

About E. B. White

Portrait of E. B. White

Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American writer, essayist, and a contributing editor for The New Yorker magazine. He was also the author of highly popular books for children: Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970).

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

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Be obscure clearly.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But 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.

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All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.

—Morihei Ueshiba

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At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

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The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing.

—Stewart Edward White

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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

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