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Quotes by E.B. White

Im really too young to go out into the world alone, he thought as he lay down

Im really too young to go out into the world alone, he thought as he lay down.

One of the most interesting accomplishments of the film community, it seems to me, is that it has made real for America the exquisite beauty of incompatibility. Divorce among the gods possesses the sweet, holy sadness that has long been associated with marriage among the mortals. There is something infinitely tender about the inability of an actor to get along with an actress. When it is all over, and the decree is final, the two are even more attentive to each other, are seen oftener together, than ever before.

Besides, my life is a catastrophe. Its a catastrophe to be without a voice.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

“After all, whats a life, anyway? Were born, we live a little while, we die.”