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E B White: Computing machines perhaps...

E B White: Computing machines perhaps...

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of...

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E B White: Analyzing humor is...

E B White: Analyzing humor is...

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

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E B White: Genius is more...

E B White: Genius is more...

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

Source: Lime,...

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E B White: There's no limit...

E B White: There's no limit...

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

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E B White: I arise in...

E B White: I arise in...

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the...

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E B White: A good farmer...

E B White: A good farmer...

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

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E B White: From three to...

E B White: From three to...

From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be...

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E B White: A candidate could...

E B White: A candidate could...

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a...

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E B White: Be obscure clearly....

E B White: Be obscure clearly....

Be obscure clearly.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler,...

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E B White: A man who...

E B White: A man who...

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist -- nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A...

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E B White: I see nothing...

E B White: I see nothing...

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

Source: In The...

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E B White: DEMOCRACY: n: The...

E B White: DEMOCRACY: n: The...

DEMOCRACY: n: The recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the...

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E B White: Luck is not...

E B White: Luck is not...

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

Source:...

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E B White: She would write...

E B White: She would write...

She would write 8 or 10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down.

Source: On...

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E B White: One of the...

E B White: One of the...

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

Source: Essays of E. B....

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E B White: I would feel...

E B White: I would feel...

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and...

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E B White: There is a...

E B White: There is a...

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream,...

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E B White: Writing is an...

E B White: Writing is an...

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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E B White: I sometimes doubt...

E B White: I sometimes doubt...

I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by so much as a dictionary: one thing leads to...

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E B White: A poet's pleasure...

E B White: A poet's pleasure...

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from...

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