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Quotes by E. B. White

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.

E. B. White : American writer
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Source: http://www.biology-online.org
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if the world were merely seductive, that would be easy.
if the world were merely challenging, that would be no problem.
but i arise in the morning torn between a desire to change the world and a desire to enjoy the world.
this makes it very hard to plan the day.

E. B. White : American writer
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
 
Contributed by: afroGerm. More quotes added by afroGerm from all sources
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Be obscure clearly.

E. B. White : American writer
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
 
Contributed by: Virginia. More quotes added by VAinWI from all sources
More quotes about: clarity, obscurity
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

E. B. White : American writer
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
 
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his day and then becomes stringy.

E. B. White : American writer
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Source: Letter to Harold Ross, September 19, 1938
More quotes about: day, plants
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As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.

E. B. White : American writer
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Source: Letter to Mr. Nadeau, March 30, 1973
More quotes about: compassion, hope, time, women
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We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.

E. B. White : American writer
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Source: Letter to Janice White, April 27, 1952
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The future . . . seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

E. B. White : American writer
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Source: One Man’s Meat, 1944
More quotes about: dreams, future
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The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast.

E. B. White : American writer
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Source: Essays of E. B. White, 1977
More quotes about: devil, philosophy
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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.

E. B. White : American writer
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Source: Letter to Corona Machemer, June 11, 1975
More quotes about: time, world, writing
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