The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
E. B. WHITELife is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
More E. B. White Quotes
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I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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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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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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