Loneliness is a strange gift.
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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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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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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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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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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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 good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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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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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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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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