Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
E. B. WHITENo one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
More E. B. White Quotes
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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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.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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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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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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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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The best writing is rewriting.
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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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