The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates … - E. B. White

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The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. . . . What am I doing to shape the values of the society?

E. B. White

The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound of sea and sand, in the singing shell, in the heat of sun and sky, in the sultriness of the gentle hours, in the siesta, in the stir of birds and insects.

Sea, Land, Sky, Sultriness, Sustained

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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

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Oh, I never look under the hood.

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I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?

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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

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