Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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.
More E. B. White Quotes
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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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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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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