E. B. White Quotes About Comedy
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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