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Charlotte's Web

by E. B. White · Recommended by 0 people on 4 podcasts

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“You guys just don't know what it's like to live on a farm; sometimes you gotta kill puppies—they're always killing puppies. You ever read Babe or Charlotte's Web? Most of that book is about killing pigs.”
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“I think I was in fifth or sixth grade; uh, I was Templeton the rat in a production of Charlotte's Web!”
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“You know E.B. White, like the author of Charlotte's Web? With one of the greatest lines ever in literature that I am not going to nail right now, but...”
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“And if I think back to when I read 'Charlotte's Web' for the first time, I must have been quite young; who could forget Wilbur and Fern's relationship with Wilbur and then wanting Wilbur not to become bacon, which was in fact the whole plot of the book.”
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“I didn't spend a day not eating meat after reading 'Charlotte's Web,' so I don't know what that makes me—like a moral vagrant or something—but look, I think that Tolstoy and Fern and this Peter Singer argument, I actually have to say, I think it's right.”
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“Yeah, I was like the runt of the litter, you know what I mean? Like, uh, Charlotte's web trickle. Yeah, it was like Charlotte's web, dude.”
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“and then i saw a spider and so i said oh damn you know charlotte's webbing this [ __ ] you know what i'm saying this this that damn fifth grade reading level that shit's you know causing me to act up”

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