One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
E. B. WHITEA 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.
More E. B. White Quotes
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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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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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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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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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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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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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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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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