No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
E. B. WHITEYou 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?
More E. B. White Quotes
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty-everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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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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Never hurry and never worry!
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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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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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