When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
E. B. WHITE
E. B. WHITE
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E. B. White121 quotes“When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.”
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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north…As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White 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.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White A right is a responsibility in reverse.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White 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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