You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
E. B. WHITEBe obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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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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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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