You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
E. B. WHITEIt can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. 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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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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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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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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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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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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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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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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