American - Writer | July 11, 1899 - October 1, 1985
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.
E. B. White
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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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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
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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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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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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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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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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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