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E B White Quotes
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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 (E B White Quotes)
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street (E B White Quotes)
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority (E B White Quotes)
Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19 (E B White Quotes)
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor (E B White Quotes)
I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down (E B White Quotes)
Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government (E B White Quotes)
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world’s gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time (E B White Quotes)
The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase (E B White Quotes)
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 (E B White Quotes)
America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious (E B White Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts (E B White Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances (E B White Quotes)
The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay (E B White Quotes)
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone (E B White Quotes)
This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing (E B White Quotes)
I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially (E B White Quotes)
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 (E B White Quotes)
Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print (E B White Quotes)
It’s hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day (E B White Quotes)
It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible (E B White Quotes)
Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays (E B White Quotes)
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 (E B White Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness (E B White Quotes)
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 (E B White Quotes)
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. (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)