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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White
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E. B. White
Age: 86 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 11
Died: 1985
Died: October 1
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You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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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.
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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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Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.
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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 am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
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New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine.
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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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... with men it's rush, rush, rush, every minute. I'm glad I'm a sedentary spider. What does sedentary mean? asked Wilbur. Means I sit still a good part of the time and don't go wandering all over creation. I know a good thing when I see it, and my web is a good thing. I stay put and wait for what comes. Gives me a chance to think.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard.
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I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by so much as a dictionary: one thing leads to another and the first thing you know he has a stuffed chair and is fast asleep in it.
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Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.
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Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.
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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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I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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