Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. WHITEWriting is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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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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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
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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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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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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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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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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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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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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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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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