Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
E. B. WHITEWriting is both mask and unveiling.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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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.
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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