Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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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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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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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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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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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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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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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
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