E. B. White Quotes
Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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Being evil is easy.
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Practices were tough.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.
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I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
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'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style.
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A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.
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No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
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I grew up in Cincinnati, the birthplace of the creamiest and most delicious ice cream with the hugest chocolate chips. Graeter's used to be available only regionally, but an extravagant thing you could do was overnight-ship six pints to another state, in dry ice.
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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
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I've done a dozen or two dozen infomercials.
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After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.
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Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
