People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
E. B. WHITEOnly a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
More E. B. White Quotes
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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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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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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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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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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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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