It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
E. B. WHITE“What are they, and where are you?” screamed Wilbur. “Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?” “Salutations are greetings,” said the voice. “When I say ‘salutations,’ it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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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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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty-everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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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.
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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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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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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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