E. B. White Quotes - Page 4

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• Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.

  E. B. White

  Peace, Thinking, People

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.161, Cornell University Press

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• Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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  Hard Work, Writing, Hard

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• It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.

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  Winning, People, Prize

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.58, Cornell University Press

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• The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

  E. B. White

  Running, People, Politics

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.165, Cornell University Press

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• Liberals are like dogs: The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk.

  E. B. White

  Dog, Attitude, Crazy

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• Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

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  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.56, Cornell University Press

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• An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

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  Writing, Editors, Desire

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

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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.

  E. B. White

  Eye, Together, Television

  "Removal". Essay by E. B. White (July 1938), published in his book "One Man's Meat", 1942.

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• Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

  E. B. White

  Weather, Dubious, Tasks

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• A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

  E. B. White

  Taught, Students, Medical

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.120, Cornell University Press

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• A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

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  Art, Space, Add

  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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• It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace.

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  Morning, Sunday, Grace

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• It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

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  Friendship, True Friend, Charlotte's Web

  Charlotte'sWeb ch. 22 (1952)

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• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

  E. B. White

  Life, Good Luck, Men

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• Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

  E. B. White

  Beautiful, Simple, Spiders

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• The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and the prognostications and the turmoil, the disagreements and the fateful decisions and agreements and the plans and the programs and the threats and the counter threats, then you close your eyes and the sea dispatches one more big roller in the unbroken line since the beginning of the world and it combs and breaks and returns foaming and saying: "So soon?" E. B. White "On A Florida Key

  E. B. White

  Eye, Keys, Florida

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• Books are the door of escape from the forest.

  E. B. White

  Book, Doors, Forests

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• In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

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  Country, Attention, Pay

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.139, Cornell University Press

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• I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

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  Science, Views, Space

  E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.

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  Sight, Well Said, Abomination

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.188, Cornell University Press

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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.

  E. B. White

  Men, Sailing, Nautical

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• Mother: It's broccoli, dear. ---
  Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.

  E. B. White

  Mother, Children, Hell

  Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 1928

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• When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

  E. B. White

  Men, Weather, Sick

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

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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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  Writing, Editing, Trying

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• Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

  E. B. White

  Understanding, Done, Frogs

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