In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
E. B. WHITESalutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
More E. B. White Quotes
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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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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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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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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer’s time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer’s time isn’t worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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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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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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