Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
E. B. WHITEEverything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
E. B. WHITEReading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
E. B. WHITEPeople are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
E. B. WHITEHang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
E. B. WHITEBooks hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
E. B. WHITEYou can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
E. B. WHITEThe whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
E. B. WHITEWell,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
E. B. WHITENever hurry and never worry!
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.
E. B. WHITEI have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
E. B. WHITEWhen you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
E. B. WHITEAn editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
E. B. WHITEIs there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
E. B. WHITEThe rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
E. B. WHITEOne of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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