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“Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.”
-- E. B. White

#Believe #People #Trust Me
“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

#Life #Heaven #Trying
“Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”
-- E. B. White

#Book #People #Alive
“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
-- E. B. White

#Beauty #Powerful #Creativity
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”
-- E. B. White

#Encouragement #Book #People
“It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. 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 the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
-- E. B. White

#Morning #Seductive #Challenges
“I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.”
-- E. B. White

#Writing #Admiration #Admire
“Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.”
-- E. B. White

#Reading #Mind #Produce
“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

#Life #Morning #Time

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