If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. WHITEEverything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
More E. B. White Quotes
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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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 see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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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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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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