Oh, I never look under the hood.

E. B. WHITE

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Oh, I never look under the hood.

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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

E. B. WHITE

A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
E. B. WHITE

Absorb Stir Writer
Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
E. B. WHITE

Anything Background Hand Net Over Them Throw Word
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

E. B. WHITE

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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Anything Being More Thought Touchy Unjust
I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
E. B. WHITE

Corporate
Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.

E. B. WHITE

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
E. B. WHITE

Oood Safety Well
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

E. B. WHITE

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. WHITE

Form Get Saver
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

E. B. WHITE

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. WHITE

Made Mention Self Something
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?

E. B. WHITE

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?
E. B. WHITE

Brutal Fierce Friend Now Thirsty
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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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.
E. B. WHITE

Remark Spoken
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
E. B. WHITE

Dissect Tend
Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
E. B. WHITE

Fancy Good Morning Hello Just Say Way
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.

E. B. WHITE

Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
E. B. WHITE

Desirable Devotees Fatal Local Nationalism Prepossess Self Sufficiency Two
Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
E. B. WHITE

Author Been Color Only Semi
Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.

E. B. WHITE

Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
E. B. WHITE

Awake Every Inclination Savor
No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
E. B. WHITE

Lucky One Should Unless

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