6 Quotes by E. B. White about communication

  • Author E. B. White
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    It shows the complexity of the day -- the frailties, lack of communication and frustration. This is not a happy film; this is not a pretty film; this film describes in real time the deaths that occurred. It shows footage of the Towers and the Pentagon and weaves Flight 93 through it all.

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    English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

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    As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

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    All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

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