Writing is both mask and unveiling.
E. B. WHITEGenius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
More E. B. White Quotes
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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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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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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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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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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north…As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
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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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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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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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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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