Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
E. B. WHITESemi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
More E. B. White Quotes
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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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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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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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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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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