| Be obscure clearly. |
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- E.B. White |
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| Writing is both mask and unveiling. |
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- E.B. White |
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| Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. |
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- E.B. White |
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| A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer.... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. |
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- E.B. White |
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| Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. |
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- E.B. White |
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| A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality. |
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- E.B. White |
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| The future . . . seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. |
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- E.B. White |
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| I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure. |
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- E.B. White |
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| Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing. |
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- E.B. White |
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| Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. |
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- E.B. White |
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| I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands. |
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- E.B. White |
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| New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up! |
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- E.B. White |
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| Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. |
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- E.B. White |
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