Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
E. B. WHITEThere 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.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
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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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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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