A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
E. B. WHITEI believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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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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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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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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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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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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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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