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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Dies Few Frog Humor Like People

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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

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Be obscure clearly.

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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

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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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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

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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.

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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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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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