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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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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Mount Vernon
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Elwyn Brooks White
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You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.
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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.
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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.
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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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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.
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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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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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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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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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Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.
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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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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else
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Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.
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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.
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