People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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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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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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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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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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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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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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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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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