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Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

E. B. White
Passion, Cities, Giving
E.B. White (2011). “Here is New York”, p.26, New York Review of Books

This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing

E. B. White
Girl, Knowing, Giving
E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.220, Cornell University Press

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

E. B. White
Truth, Giving, Thrill
E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse , and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise.

E. B. White
Couple, Health, Giving

"Have you ever found anything that gives you relief?" "Yes. A drink."

E. B. White
Giving, Relief, Drink
"The Second Tree From The Corner".

The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

E. B. White
Giving, Bonus, Rich

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