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E. B. White121 quotes“I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.”
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White 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.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White 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.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Never hurry and never worry!
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
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