QUOTES by E. B. White
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"We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or doing laundry."
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"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."
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"You have been my friend," replied Charlotte, "That in itself is a tremendous thing."
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"If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!" (William Strunk) ... Why compound ignorance with inaudibility?"
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"Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind."
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"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."
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"If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs."
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"Too many things on my mind, said Wilbur. Well, said the goose, that's not my trouble. I have nothing at all on my mind, but I've too many things under my behind."
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"Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it."
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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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"Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly."
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"Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will."
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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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"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."
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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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"A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open."
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"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind."
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"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process."
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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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"Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print."
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"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult."
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"A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper."
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"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."
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