We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. WHITE
You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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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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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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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 see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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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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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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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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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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