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E B White Inspirational Quotes (147)

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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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Never hurry and never worry!
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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.
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In every queen there's a touch of floozy.
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As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.
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Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.
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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.
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false lively, not dull accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast.
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Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.
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You're terrific as far as I am concerned.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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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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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
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