The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
E. B. WHITEI am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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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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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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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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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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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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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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