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All Quotes by author - E. B. White

" A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. "

" All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. "

" Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. "

" A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy. "

" Be obscure clearly. "

" Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. "

" Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. "

" English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. "

" Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. "

" Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. "

" 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. "

" I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. "

" I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. "

" I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright. "

" I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. "

" It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members. "

" It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. "

" 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. "

" Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. "

" 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. "

" One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. "

" Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. "

" 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. "

" The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. "

" There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. "

" There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. "

" The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. "

" The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. "

" The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. "

" The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. "

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