59 ordspråk av E. B. White

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E. B. White föddes den 12 juli 1899 och dog den 1 oktober 1985 - US writer
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 A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.

 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.

 A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

 A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy

 An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service

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

 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.

 Be obscure clearly.

 Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.

 Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

 Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

 Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time

 Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time

 English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education -- sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

 Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.


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