Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. WHITEA candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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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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I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty-everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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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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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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