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Be obscure clearly.
Written by E. B. White
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
Written by E. B. White
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Written by E. B. White
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Written by E. B. White
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
Written by E. B. White
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
Written by E. B. White
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
Written by E. B. White
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Written by E. B. White
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
Written by E. B. White
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
Written by E. B. White
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
Written by E. B. White
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
Written by E. B. White
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
Written by E. B. White
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
Written by E. B. White
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
Written by E. B. White
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
Written by E. B. White
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
Written by E. B. White
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.
Written by E. B. White
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
Written by E. B. White
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
Written by E. B. White
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
Written by E. B. White
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
Written by E. B. White
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
Written by E. B. White
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
Written by E. B. White
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
Written by E. B. White
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
Written by E. B. White
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
Written by E. B. White
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
Written by E. B. White
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.
Written by E. B. White
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
Written by E. B. White

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