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. WHITETo achieve style, begin by affecting none.
More E. B. White Quotes
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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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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.
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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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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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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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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