Never hurry and never worry!
E. B. WHITE
E. B. WHITE
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
E. B. WhiteE. B. White It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
E. B. WhiteE. B. White 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.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson It doesn’t matter how much of a hurry you think you are in. Be one of the people for whom ten minutes does not make a difference.
Giles CorenGiles Coren People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
Alan PatonAlan Paton When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.
Nigel FarageNigel Farage I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.
Al BertoAl Berto Don’t be in such a hurry.
Billie HolidayBillie Holiday And you wanted to hurry him up a little so you made a move, an unmistakable move; one that nobody could pretend had been a misunderstanding. And he – he ignored it – ignored you. What would you feel?
Ahdaf SoueifAhdaf Soueif God is never in a hurry, but God is never late.
Adrian RogersAdrian Rogers