I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
E. B. WHITEI believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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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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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
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Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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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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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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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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