Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
E. B. WHITEThe best writing is rewriting.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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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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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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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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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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