59 ordspråk av E. B. White
E. B. White
E. B. White föddes den July 12th 1899 och dog den 1 October 1985 - US writer
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 One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. |
| Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. |
| Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. |
| Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. |
| She would write 8 or 10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down. |
| She would write 8 or 10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down. |
| Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. |
| Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot. |
| The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. |
| The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk. |
| The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it |
| The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss-a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye. |
| The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs. |
| The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. |
| The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people |
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