Writing is both mask and unveiling.
E. B. WHITEA good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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 itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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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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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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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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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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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer’s time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer’s time isn’t worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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