I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
E. B. WHITEThere is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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Books 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.
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Television 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.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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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.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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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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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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