I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
E. B. WHITESalutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
More E. B. White Quotes
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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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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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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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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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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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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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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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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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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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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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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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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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