When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
E. B. WHITETo achieve style, begin by affecting none.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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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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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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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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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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