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• She would write 8 or10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down.

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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.

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• Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

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• It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

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• It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

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• I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

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• I’m less than two months old and I’m tired of living.

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• You can see in pantomime the puppets fumbling with their slips of paper…see them pick up their phone…see the noiseless, ceaseless capital of memoranda, in touch with Calcutta, in touch with Reykjavik, and always fooling with something.

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• The duty of a democracy is to know then what it knows now.

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• All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

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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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• You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.

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• Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.

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• Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.

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• Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.

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

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• After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die.

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• Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

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• Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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• When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

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E. B. White (66)

Birth:	11th July, 1899
Death:	1st October, 1985
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

About

E. B. White was an American writer. He was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide, The Elements of Style, which is commonly known as "Strunk & White". He also wrote books for children, including Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan. Charlotte's Web was voted the top children's novel in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, not for the first time.

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