Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
E. B. WHITEDemocracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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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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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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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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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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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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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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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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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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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