If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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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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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
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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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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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