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" 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. "

E. B. White

Days

Over

Skin

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Writing is hard work and bad for the health. "

" The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative. "

" We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. "

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

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" Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. "

" Be obscure clearly. "

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

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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