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“I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life’s more stereotyped roles.” — E. B. White, “Death of a Pig,” The Atlantic (January 1948)

Author YahooeyPosted on March 13, 2022March 10, 2022Categories QuotationsTags E. B. White, roles2 Comments on Quote of the Day

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“People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.” — E. B. White, “The Ring of Time,” The New Yorker (1956-03-22)

Author YahooeyPosted on January 25, 2022January 24, 2022Categories QuotationsTags E. B. White, silly, unjustLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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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, and object to the passage of time, and would rather have none of it.” — E. B. White, “The Ring of Time,” The New Yorker (1956-03-22)

Author YahooeyPosted on December 12, 2021December 11, 2021Categories QuotationsTags change, common sense, E. B. WhiteLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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“I hold one share in the corporate earth and am uneasy about the management.” — E. B. White, “Sootfall and Fallout,” The New Yorker (1956-10-18)

Author YahooeyPosted on October 26, 2021October 25, 2021Categories QuotationsTags E. B. White, earth, management3 Comments on Quote of the Day

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“One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.” — E. B. White, “A Report in January,” The New Yorker (1958-01-30)

Author YahooeyPosted on September 11, 2021September 9, 2021Categories QuotationsTags E. B. White, enemiesLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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

“Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.” — E. B. White, “Fro-Joy”, One Man’s Meat

Author YahooeyPosted on September 3, 2020August 29, 2020Categories QuotationsTags E. B. White, Fro-Joy, Somewhere ElseLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” — E. B. White, “E. B. White: Notes and Comment by Author“, The New York Times (1969-07-11)

Author YahooeyPosted on July 11, 2020July 9, 2020Categories QuotationsTags desire, E. B. White, enjoyment, Improvement, morning, planning, saving the world, savour5 Comments on Quote of the Day

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Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

“Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.” — E. B. White, preface to A Subtreasury of American Humor

Author YahooeyPosted on April 5, 2020March 30, 2020Categories QuotationsTags dissection, E. B. White, humour, scientific mindLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Did it ever occur to you that there's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another?

“Did it ever occur to you that there’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another?” — E. B. White, “Quo Vadimus?”, The Adelphi (January 1930)

Author YahooeyPosted on February 19, 2020February 17, 2020Categories QuotationsTags complicated, E. B. WhiteLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny.

“We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny.” — E. B. White, Letter to Janice White (1952-04-27)

Author YahooeyPosted on December 11, 2019February 17, 2020Categories QuotationsTags E. B. White, tyrannyLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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