Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. WHITEA poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
More E. B. White Quotes
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I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended.
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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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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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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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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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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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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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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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And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. “Salutations!” said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. “Salu-what?” he cried. “Salutations!” repeated the voice.
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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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