Seems Quotes by E. B. White

8 Seems quotes by E. B. White

Eight gentle observations from the beloved author reveal his playful take on appearances. Though the list is short, it offers a warm, accessible glimpse into his literary charm.

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It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was…

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A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the…

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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…

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Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is…

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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…

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No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

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If sometimes there seems to be a sort of sameness of sound in The New Yorker, it probably can be traced to…

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A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born.…

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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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