In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
E. B. WHITEEverything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Never hurry and never worry!
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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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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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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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.
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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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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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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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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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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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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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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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