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An American writer.Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985), usually known as E. B. White, was an American writer. A long-time contributor to The New Yorker magazine, he also wrote many famous books for both adults and children, such as the popular Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, and co-authored a widely used writing guide, The Elements of Style, popularly known by its authors' names, as "Strunk & White."
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Humour can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process.
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Humour plays close to the big hot fire which is the truth and the reader feels the heat.
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His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. 'Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating.'
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Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man write about a man.
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Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion.
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Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don’t write about Man write about 'a' man.
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I wake each morning torn between the desire to improve the world and the desire to enjoy it. It makes it hard to plan the day.
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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.
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Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; a man who shaves and takes a train and then rides back to shave again.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind is demanding and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.
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The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
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If the world were merely seductive that would be easy. If it were merely challenging that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.