Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. WHITEBefore the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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.
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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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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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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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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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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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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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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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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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