Television 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.
E. B. WHITEBy helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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Never hurry and never worry!
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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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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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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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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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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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