E.B. White

E.B. White. Quotes from the writer, long-time contributor to The New Yorker, and co-author of The Elements of Style. (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985)

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Guard the most difficult part of me/That has fattened me not, but has left me free.

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P.S. If this letter arrives too late for the event, you may spend the money on drink, with all its attendant evils.

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The young are as green as grass, and they immediately begin playing their flutes, an enchanting sound.

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There is nothing (to me) more delightful than the details surrounding a hatch of goose eggs.

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Lilacs and apple blossoms were confused by the whole business and blew their lines.

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We had no spring here at all and have gone straight into summer.

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on recent visits it has seemed foreign territory and I stroll up and down in a thin cloud of depression laced with diesel oil.

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When freedom of expression is abused, and things become disgusting, then feeedom of expression is endangered.

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I picked up Ulysses and gave it a go but found out that it was simply making me horribly nervous, and never went back

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I sit cozily indoors, thinking of all the things I've ever known

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Artistic temperaments and pride can easily get on a collision course.

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(There's a metaphor to rassle with!)

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I had become accustomed to the act of creation; now I'm in the moult and my spirit tends to droop.

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More likely it is that, like many an aging writer, I miss the warmth and the excitement of brooding a clutch of my own eggs.

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If I'm down, I suspect it's not as simple as an unhatched eagle's egg.

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As you see, I have nothing specific to offer and am well supplied with platitudes, every one of them gilt-edged.

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Non-commercial TV should address itself to the idea of excellence, not the idea of acceptability

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It should be the concern of our democracy that no child shall feel uncomfortable because of belief.

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Aphids beware the Ides of June!

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Baseball is for watching, I know that much about the game, even though I seldom understand exactly what is taking place.

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to take up its life again in the bee balm and delphiniums