Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
- E. B. White - In Art
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If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
- Theodore H. White - In Business
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The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
- Byron R. White - In History
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I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.
- Theodore H. White - In History
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
- E. B. White - In Humor
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
- E. B. White - In Intelligence
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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.
- E. B. White - In Life
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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.
- E. B. White - In Poetry
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
- E. B. White - In Politics
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The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
- Theodore H. White - In Politics
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
- E. B. White - In Science
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
- Alfred North Whitehead - In Technology
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