It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
E. B. WHITEAlways be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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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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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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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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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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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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The best writing is rewriting.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. 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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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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