Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. WHITEPrejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
More E. B. White Quotes
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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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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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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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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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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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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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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