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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 Quotes)
In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart (E B White Quotes)
Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog (E B White Quotes)
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 (E B White Quotes)
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper (E B White Quotes)
A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer’s enthusiasm (E B White Quotes)
The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air, leaving nothing but a memory of bright sound (E B White Quotes)
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write (E B White Quotes)
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 (E B White Quotes)
It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression (E B White Quotes)
When a man hangs from a tree it doesn’t spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him (E B White Quotes)
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 Quotes)
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing (E B White Quotes)
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult (E B White Quotes)
A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along (E B White Quotes)
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 (E B White Quotes)
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 (E B White Quotes)
I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand (E B White Quotes)
It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog’s nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months (E B White Quotes)
It isn’t silence you can cut with a knife any more, it’s interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage (E B White Quotes)
Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be (E B White Quotes)
No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring (E B White Quotes)
The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one (E B White Quotes)
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy (E B White Quotes)
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 (E B White Quotes)
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 (E B White Quotes)
I seldom went to bed before two or three o’clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night (E B White Quotes)
Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off (E B White Quotes)
When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair (E B White Quotes)
Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have (E B White Quotes)