I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
E. B. WHITEBefore the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
More E. B. White Quotes
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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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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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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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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