E. B. White Quotes - Page 7

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• Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

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  Believe, Humor, Sense Of Humor

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

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• Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

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  Passion, Cities, Giving

  E.B. White (2011). “Here is New York”, p.26, New York Review of Books

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• Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

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  Fire, Play, Hot

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• Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his life, and this is mine. It is not the best book I ever encountered, perhaps, but it is for me the handiest, and I keep it about me in much the same way one carries a handkerchief - for relief in moments of defluxion or despair.

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  Book, Men, Thinking

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

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• An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.

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  Life, Eggs, Challenges

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

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• Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

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  Writing, Exercise, Journey

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• Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

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  Writing, Shapes

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.218, Cornell University Press

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• There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.

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  Doe, Chance, Streams

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

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• There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.

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  Writing, Pay, Matter

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

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• Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.

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  Writing, Elderly, Advice

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• What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.

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  Mean, Thinking, Would Be

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• The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.

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  Beautiful, Summer, Sadness

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• America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious.

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  Air, America, Liberty

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• You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.

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  Friendship, Inspiring, My Friends

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• Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

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  Political, Dying, Adults

  "The Thud of Ideas," The New Yorker, September 23, 1950.

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• Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

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  Dream, Writing, Positivity

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• When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

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  Acceptance, Power, Men

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

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• Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

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  Writing, Men, Advice

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

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• It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.

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  Funny, Running, Dog

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• But we have received a sign, Edith - a mysterious sign. A miracle has happened on this farm... in the middle of the web there were the words 'Some Pig'... we have no ordinary pig." "Well", said Mrs. Zuckerman, "it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.

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  Pigs, Miracle, Ordinary

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• I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.

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  Believe, Fall, Opportunity

  "One Man's Meat". Book by E. B. White, 1942.

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• Don't write about Man; write about a man.

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  Writing, Men, Young Writers

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

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• Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.

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  Frogs

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• In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.

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  Book, Writing, Order

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

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