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Good Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- 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…
- There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to…
- A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library…
- In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity…
- It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live…
- The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and if…
- The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
- A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered
- Salutations; it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
- A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be…
- It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
- A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
- I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into…
- 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.…
- Templeton was down there now, rummaging around. When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mouth an advertisement he had torn from a…
- And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before.…
- Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the…
- ... with men it's rush, rush, rush, every minute. I'm glad I'm a sedentary spider." "What does sedentary mean?" asked Wilbur. "Means I sit still…
- I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else
- Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make…
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- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle