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E.B. White Quote: “Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.”
E.B. White Quote: “When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.”
E.B. White Quote: “It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.”
E.B. White Quote: “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 Quote: “Home was quite a place when people stayed there.”
E.B. White Quote: “The light strengthened, the mornings came sooner.”
E.B. White Quote: “This theme interests me because I believe, with the author, that security declines as security machinery expands.”
E.B. White Quote: “The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.”
E.B. White Quote: “I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.”
E.B. White Quote: “A right is a responsibility in reverse.”
E.B. White Quote: “All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.”
E.B. White Quote: “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.”
E.B. White Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.”
E.B. White Quote: “He wiped his face with his handkerchief, for he was quite warm from the exertion of being Chairman of the World. It had taken more running and leaping and sliding than he had imagined.”
E.B. White Quote: “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.”
E.B. White Quote: “I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home – a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn’t forget that sort of association.”
E.B. White Quote: “If sometimes there seems to be a sort of sameness of sound in The New Yorker, it probably can be traced to the magazine’s copydesk, which is a marvelous fortress of grammatical exactitude and stylish convention.”
E.B. White Quote: “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 Quote: “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.”
E.B. White Quote: “A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user’s dreams than to express a precise meaning.”
E.B. White Quote: “I shall get up on Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness... Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.”
E.B. White Quote: “Early next morning the craft hit the beach again and resumed loading pulpwood. It was an awesome sight, this tentacle of empire reaching out into so remote and quiet a spot; and it was a fearsome sound, the throbbing engines of an old, dead war furnishing the paper for new conquests in the magazine field.”
E.B. White Quote: “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 Quote: “The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.”
E.B. White Quote: “The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.”
E.B. White Quote: “It is not possible to keep abreast of the normal tides of acquisition. A home is like a reservoir equipped with a check valve: the valve permits influx but prevents outflow.”
E.B. White Quote: “If they’d hang head-down at the top of the thing and wait quietly, maybe something good would come along. But no – with men it’s rush, rush, rush, every minute.”
E.B. White Quote: “There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don’t want.”
E.B. White Quote: “The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn’t as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war’s consequences.”
E.B. White Quote: “The sky,” he wrote on his slate, “is my living room. The woods are my parlor. The lonely lake is my bath. I can’t remain behind a fence all my life.”
E.B. White Quote: “In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.”
E.B. White Quote: “I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.”
E.B. White Quote: “The concern of a democracy is that no honest man shall feel uncomfortable, I don’t care who he is, or how nutty he is.”
E.B. White Quote: “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 Quote: “Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.”
E.B. White Quote: “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 Quote: “It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.”
E.B. White Quote: “Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one. Start sniffing the air, or glancing at the Trend Machine, and you are as good as dead, although you may make a nice living.”
E.B. White Quote: “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.”
E.B. White Quote: “I’m not fooled any more by an ill wind and a light that fails.”
E.B. White Quote: “The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.”
E.B. White Quote: “Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?”
E.B. White Quote: “A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.”
E.B. White Quote: “People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.”
E.B. White Quote: “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 Quote: “It is best to have a strong curiosity, weak affiliations.”
E.B. White Quote: “Some of the published news was distorted, but distortion is inherent in partisan journalism, the same as it is in political rallies.”
E.B. White Quote: “Yet in tearing us apart he somehow held us together. In obstructing, he strengthened us. In criticizing, he informed. In his rich, aromatic heresy, he nourished our faith. He was also a plain damned nuisance, I must not forget that.”
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