Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
E. B. WHITEIt is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
More E. B. White Quotes
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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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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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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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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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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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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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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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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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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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north…As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
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