E. B. White Quotes

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

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

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• To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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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.

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• I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

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

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

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

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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.

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E. B. White (66)

Birth:	11th July, 1899
Death:	1st October, 1985
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

About

E. B. White was an American writer. He was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide, The Elements of Style, which is commonly known as "Strunk & White". He also wrote books for children, including Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan. Charlotte's Web was voted the top children's novel in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, not for the first time.

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