A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
E. B. WHITEDemocracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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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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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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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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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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