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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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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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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When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one understood what I was going through.
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The partaker partakes of that which changes him. The child that touches takes character from the thing, The body, it touches. The captain and his menAre one and the sailor and the sea are one.
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The Nobodies; Cied in Mother Jones Magazine (1991) The Book of Embraces. March-April 1991. p. 71
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Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.
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BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE
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I just want to do something challenging.
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Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.
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On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me.
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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.
