You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
E. B. WHITEOnly a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
More E. B. White Quotes
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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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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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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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.
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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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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