Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
E. B. WHITEThe world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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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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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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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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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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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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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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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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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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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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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