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 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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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.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White 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.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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E. B. WhiteE. B. White There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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E. B. WhiteE. B. White 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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E. B. WhiteE. B. White 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.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Never hurry and never worry!
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