Knows Quotes by E. B. White

9 Knows quotes by E. B. White

White’s nine brief statements on knowing capture his gentle, observant style, delivering a quick, comforting glimpse into his timeless literary voice.

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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

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Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to…

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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little…

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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…

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The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the…

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It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the…

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Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain…

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Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs;…

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Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial…

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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

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“To hear, in the short space of one week, a Scottish terrier booed by an audience and President Roosevelt criticized by Charles Lindbergh was…

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The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering…

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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…

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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed…

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When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we…

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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human…

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Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

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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…

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Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan…

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I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen…

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Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

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The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich…

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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

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The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review…

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