Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
E. B. WHITEThe main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
More E. B. White Quotes
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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
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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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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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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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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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You 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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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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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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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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