E. B. White Quotes - Page 11

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• There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

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  Dream, Men, Support

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.99, Cornell University Press

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• Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.

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  Money, Dark, Men

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• Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.

  E. B. White

  Loyalty, Men, Hollywood

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

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• When snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles.

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  Snow, Miracle, Months

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• Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Murder, Obscenity

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• The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

  E. B. White

  Media, Roles, News

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• New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

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  New York, White, Church

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.156, Cornell University Press

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• A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate millions... Of all targets New York has a certain clear priority. In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm.

  E. B. White

  New York, Islands, Bridges

  "Here Is New York". Book by E. B. White, 1948.

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• The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect.

  E. B. White

  Pigs, Ideas, Wish

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• Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

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  Men, Quality, Half

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• We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse , and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise.

  E. B. White

  Couple, Health, Giving

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• A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis.

  E. B. White

  Wise, Men, Vines

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• The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war's consequences.

  E. B. White

  Country, War, Bombs

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• It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard.

  E. B. White

  Real, Order, Should Have

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• Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

  E. B. White

  Book, Childhood, Adults

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• The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

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  Milk And Honey, Forever, Cooking

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• The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

  E. B. White

  Giving, Bonus, Rich

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• I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.

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• Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.

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  Evil, Exemption, Grants

  E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

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  Children, Thinking, Parent

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• Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

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  New York, Men, Teeth

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• I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else

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  Feel Good, Maine, Feels

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• The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound of sea and sand, in the singing shell, in the heat of sun and sky, in the sultriness of the gentle hours, in the siesta, in the stir of birds and insects.

  E. B. White

  Sea, Land, Sky

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• My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Style, Franklin

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• Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch.

  E. B. White

  Scotch, Alcohol, Bars

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