Use the smallest word that does the job.
E. B. WHITETrust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
More E. B. White Quotes
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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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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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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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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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
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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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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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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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