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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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Religion, Find, Once
E. B. White
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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Revenge, Worship, Naked
E. B. White
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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Funny, Life, Everything
E. B. White
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
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Time, War, Father
E. B. White
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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Today, Young, College
E. B. White
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Government, Fight, Confidence
E. B. White
Be obscure clearly.
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Clearly, Obscure
E. B. White
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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Life, Power, Success
E. B. White
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Country, Did, Trying
E. B. White
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Work, Bad, Hard
E. B. White
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Few, Interested, Frog
E. B. White
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
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Else, Sense, American
E. B. White
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Whole, Often, Genius
E. B. White
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.
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Morning, Day, Hard
E. B. White
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Education, Anything, Worth
E. B. White
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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Sun, Pray, Rains
E. B. White
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Time, Democracy, Half
E. B. White
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Nothing, Space, View
E. B. White
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