Loneliness is a strange gift.
E. B. WHITEChildren 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.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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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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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 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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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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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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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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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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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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