E. B. White Quotes - Page 5

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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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  Men, White, Farming

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.109, Cornell University Press

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• All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

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  Communication, Writing, Escaping

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

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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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  Animal, Attention, Charlotte's Web

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• Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

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  Children, Hard Times, Games

  "Writers at Work". Interview with George Plimpton and Frank Crowther, Paris Review, 1969.

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• I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

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  Dream, Song, Believe

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• I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.

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  Men, Waiting Rooms, Years

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• When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.

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  Chance, Said, Fairs

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

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• The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

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  Communication, Self, Problem

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• English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

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  Communication, Luck, Taste And Judgment

  E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

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• I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.

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  Heart, Worry, Advice

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

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• The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

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  Kindness, Feelings, Rodents

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.170, Cornell University Press

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• Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.

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  Summer, Song, Eggs

  E. B. White (2015). “Charlotte’s Web and other classic animal stories: Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• In every queen there's a touch of floozy.

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  Queens

  E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

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• Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

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  Faith, Religious, Democracy

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• The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style - all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

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  Simplicity, Style, Beginners

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.190, Cornell University Press

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• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

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  Writing, Men, Political

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• A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

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  Beauty, Doe, Veils

  1942 One Man's Meat, 'Poetr y'.

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• Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.

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  Land, Sky, Car

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• Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

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  Children, True Friend, Life Changing

  Charlotte'sWeb ch. 22 (1952)

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• I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

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  Funny, Humor, Literature

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

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• His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

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  Rivers, Long, Mountain

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• There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — 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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  New York, Passion, Night

  "In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers".

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• Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.

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  Friendship, Mouths, Accusation

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• A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

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  Suicide, Suicidal, Presidential

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• From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

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  Morning, Food, Heart

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