E. B. White Quotes - Page 5

• 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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  Play, Audience Of One, Duty

  William Strunk Jr. y E.B. White (1962). "Los Elementos de Estilo"

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• La rata no tenía moral, ni conciencia, ni escrúpulos, ni consideración, ni decencia, ni leche de bondad roedora, ni compunciones, ni sentimientos superiores, ni amabilidad, ni nada de nada

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  Kindness, Feelings, Rodents

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.170, Cornell University Press

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• Los primeros días de verano son una época de júbilo para los pájaros. En los campos, alrededor de la casa, en el granero, en el bosque, en el pantano - por todas partes amor y cantos y nidos y huevos.

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  Summer, Song, Eggs

  E. B. White (2015). “Charlotte’s Web and other classic animal stories: Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• Mother: It's broccoli, dear. ---
  Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.

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  Mother, Children, Hell

  Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 1928

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• In every queen there's a touch of floozy.

  E. B. White

  Queens

  E. B. WHITE (1954). "EL SEGUNDO ÁRBOL DE LA ESQUINA"

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• Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.

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  Two, Self, Strange

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• You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

  E. B. White

  Frogs, Jokes, Dies

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• I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.

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  Men, Waiting Rooms, Years

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• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

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  Escritura, Hombres, Política

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• Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

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  Faith, Religious, Democracy

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• Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

  E. B. White

  Weather, Dubious, Tasks

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• Escribir es un trabajo duro y malo para la salud.

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  Trabajo, Escribir, Duro

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• A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

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  Beauty, Doe, Veils

  1942 One Man's Meat, 'Poetr y'.

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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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  Writing, Editing, Trying

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• The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style - all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

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  Simplicity, Style, Beginners

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.190, Cornell University Press

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• Sus palabras atraviesan ríos y montañas, pero sus pensamientos sólo miden 15 centímetros.

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  Ríos, Largo, Montaña

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• Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.

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  Land, Sky, Car

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• Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

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  Children, True Friend, Life Changing

  Charlotte'sWeb ch. 22 (1952)

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• I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

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  Funny, Humor, Literature

  E. B. White (1989). "Las cartas de E. B. White", Perennial

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• A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

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  Suicide, Suicidal, Presidential

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• Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.

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  Friendship, Mouths, Accusation

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• Hay aproximadamente tres New York. Está, en primer lugar, la New York del hombre o la mujer que ha nacido aquí, que da por sentada la ciudad y acepta su tamaño y sus turbulencias como algo natural e inevitable. En segundo lugar, está el New York del viajero: la ciudad que es devorada por las langostas cada día y escupida cada noche. En tercer lugar, está el New York de la persona que nació en otro lugar y vino a New York en busca de algo.

  E. B. White

  New York, Passion, Night

  "In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers".

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• From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Food, Heart

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• Como escritor, o secretario, siempre me he sentido encargado de custodiar todos los objetos inesperados de encanto mundano y no mundano, como si se me pudiera considerar personalmente responsable si se perdiera aunque fuera uno pequeño.

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  Escritura, Hombres, Poder

  E. B. White (2011). "En palabras de E. B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers", p.23, Cornell University Press.

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• A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.

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  Libro, Hombres, Personas

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