From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
E. B. WHITETo achieve style, begin by affecting none.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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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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Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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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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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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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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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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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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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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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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