Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
E. B. WHITEA candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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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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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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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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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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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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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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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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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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