E. B. White Quotes - Page 7

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• new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.

  E. B. White

  New York, Continuing

  E.B. White (2011). “Here is New York”, p.38, New York Review of Books

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• "What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web."
  "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

  E. B. White

  Nature, Miracle, Trying

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

  E. B. White

  Writing, Exercise, Journey

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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.

  E. B. White

  Memories, Air, Leaving

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

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• Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

  E. B. White

  Pregnancy, Motherhood, Waiting

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• A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

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  Dream, Good Man, Special

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

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• 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.

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  Inspiring, Heaven, Trying

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.117, Cornell University Press

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• Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.

  E. B. White

  Life, Men, Wife

  "The Commuter" l. 1 (1982)

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• It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

  E. B. White

  New York, Luck, Individual

  E.B. White (2011). “Here is New York”, p.19, 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.

  E. B. White

  Fire, Play, Hot

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

  E. B. White

  Life, Eggs, Challenges

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

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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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• 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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• I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

  E. B. White

  Hate, War, Thinking

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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.

  E. B. White

  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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• 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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• 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

  Air, America, Liberty

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

  E. B. White

  Friendship, Inspiring, My Friends

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

  E. B. White

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

  E. B. White

  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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• 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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