Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... The businessman is speaking a language that is familiar to him and dear to him. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure the executive walks among ink erasers caparisoned like a knight. This we should be tolerant of--every man of spirit wants to ride a white horse. ... A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express his precise meaning.E. B. White
I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.
E. B. White
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by so much as a dictionary one thing leads to another and the first thing you know he has a stuffed chair and is fast asleep in it.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
E. B. White
I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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