Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
E. B. WHITESemi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
More E. B. White Quotes
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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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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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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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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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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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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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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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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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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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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