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Home was quite a place when people stayed there.
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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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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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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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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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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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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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!
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In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.
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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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In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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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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Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.
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If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.
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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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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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