We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. WHITEWriting is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
More E. B. White Quotes
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And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. “Salutations!” said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. “Salu-what?” he cried. “Salutations!” repeated the voice.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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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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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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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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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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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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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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