Loneliness is a strange gift.
E. B. WHITEBe obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
More E. B. White Quotes
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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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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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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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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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 schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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