Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
E. B. WHITEYou have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
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Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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