Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
E. B. WHITETelevision 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.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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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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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
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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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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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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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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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