It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. WHITEWe should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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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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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
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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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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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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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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
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