Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
E. B. WHITEWell,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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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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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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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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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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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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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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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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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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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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