The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
E. B. WHITE
A 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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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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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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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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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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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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