Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer’s time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer’s time isn’t worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
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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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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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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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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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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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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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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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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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