You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
E. B. WHITEThere’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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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 covers of a book.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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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. “Salutations!” said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. “Salu-what?” he cried. “Salutations!” repeated the voice.
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