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E. B. White
American
Writer
About the author
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#American
#Sense
#Humor
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#People
#World
#Open
#Mind
#Childhood
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Time
#Opinions
#Facts
#Prejudice
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Sense
#Change
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.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Man
#Power
#Age
#Violence
#Terror
#Acceptance
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Time
#Years
#War
#Father
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#People
#Trouble
#Profit
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#World
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#People
#Nothing
#Agreement
#Countries
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Leading
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.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Old
#Age
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Joy
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Time
#Enemy
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.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#People
#Today
#Deep
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Writing
#Faith
#Act
#Grammar
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Work
#Writing
#Hard work
#Health
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Christmas
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Day
#Writer
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.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Play
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Nothing
#Man
#Sense
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Men
#Self
#Luck
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,
American
Writer
#Weather
#Effect
#Skin
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#People
#Humor
Be obscure clearly.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Act
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Time
#Right
#People
#Democracy
#Suspicion
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#English
#Judgment
#Education
#Luck
#Taste
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Genius
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.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Day
#World
#Desire
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Thought
#First
#Writer
#Office
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Literature
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Nothing
#Space
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.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Time
#Man
#Future
#Nature
#Sweetness
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.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Man
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Friend
#Writer
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
E. B. White,
American
Writer
#Life
#Car