In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
E. B. WHITELife is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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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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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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