Use the smallest word that does the job.
E. B. WHITEIt is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
More E. B. White Quotes
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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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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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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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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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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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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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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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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