Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
E. B. WHITETrust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer’s time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer’s time isn’t worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
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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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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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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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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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