Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. WHITEDemocracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. WHITESemi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
E. B. WHITEI am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
E. B. WHITEThere is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
E. B. WHITEThe so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
E. B. WHITEThe whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
E. B. WHITEThe world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
E. B. WHITEA writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
E. B. WHITEPeople are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
E. B. WHITETrust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
E. B. WHITETelevision will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
E. B. WHITEFrom morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
E. B. WHITELife is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
E. B. WHITEOh, I never look under the hood.
E. B. WHITEA really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
E. B. WHITEThe 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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