E. B. White Quotes

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• Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

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  Beauty, Powerful, Creativity

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• I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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  Life, Good Morning, Time

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.148, Cornell University Press

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• Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

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  Time, Prejudice, Facts

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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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  Writing, Past, Life Is Like

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• A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

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  Inspiring, Encouragement, Book

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• The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

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  Business, People, Diversity

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• One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Enemy

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.199, Cornell University Press

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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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  Book, Reading, Men

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• A right is a responsibility in reverse.

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  Responsibility, Reverse

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.

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  Morning, Desire, World

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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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  Inspiring, Wind, Another Day

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.126, Cornell University Press

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• Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.

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  Believe, People, Trust Me

  "Fictional character: Charlotte". "Charlotte's Web", www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

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  Government, Earth, Management

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• The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

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  People, Childhood, Tolerance

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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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  Writing, Self, Stamina

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• Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.

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  Work, Learning, Discipline

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• The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

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  Play, Audience Of One, Duty

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

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  Friendship, Change, Wisdom

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.117, Cornell University Press

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• Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

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  Running, Sight, Long

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• The best writing is rewriting.

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  Writing, Learning, Rewriting

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• Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day, if I ever get a chance, I shall write a book, or warning, on the character and temperament of the Dachshund and why he can't be trained and shouldn't be. I would rather train a striped zebra to balance an Indian club than induce a Dachshund to heed my slightest command. When I address Fred I never have to raise either my voice or my hopes. He even disobeys me when I instruct him in something he wants to do.

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  Dog, Zebras, Book

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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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  Writing, Men, Thinking

  E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.4, Harper Collins

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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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  Waiting, Paper, Ideals

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.209, Cornell University Press

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• You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. 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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  Life, Heaven, Trying

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• Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

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  Book, Happy Times, People

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