A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
E. B. WHITEYou can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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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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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.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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