“What are they, and where are you?” screamed Wilbur. “Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?” “Salutations are greetings,” said the voice. “When I say ‘salutations,’ it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.
E. B. WHITEI am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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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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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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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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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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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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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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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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