When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
E. B. WHITENo one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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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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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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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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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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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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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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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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Never hurry and never worry!
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