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.
E. B. WHITEAlways be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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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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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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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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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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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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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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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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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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