Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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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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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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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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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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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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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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