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E. B. White
Age: 86 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 11
Died: 1985
Died: October 1
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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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You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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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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New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants or needs it) against all enormous and violent and wonderful events that are taking place every minute.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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You're terrific as far as I am concerned.
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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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Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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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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It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
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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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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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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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Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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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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The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.
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