Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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E. B. White121 quotes“Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.”
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White 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.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White A right is a responsibility in reverse.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Television 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. WhiteE. B. White To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
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And with this show we’re trying to be a little sillier. We can do a piece like one we wrote the other day called “Ghost Busters Busters”. Where would never do that in a million years on Mr. Show, but somehow on this show it’s silly and stupid and a little more disposable, so we can do something like that.
B. J. PorterB. J. Porter It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
Barbra StreisandBarbra Streisand I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things.
Barbara MandrellBarbara Mandrell I skate all the time, but it’s silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
Bam MargeraBam Margera Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna When you’re young, you’re stupid. You do silly things.
Ozzy OsbourneOzzy Osbourne It’s silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.
Alan PriceAlan Price I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
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