Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
E. B. WHITEIt is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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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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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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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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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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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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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove 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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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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