To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
E. B. WHITEWhen you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
More E. B. White Quotes
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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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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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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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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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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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