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.
E. B. WHITEA writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
More E. B. White Quotes
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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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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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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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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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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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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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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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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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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