“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)
Tag: E. B. White
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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“Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.” — E. B. White, “Fro-Joy”, One Man’s Meat
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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.” — E. B. White, “E. B. White: Notes and Comment by Author“, The New York Times (1969-07-11)
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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.” — E. B. White, preface to A Subtreasury of American Humor
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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?” — E. B. White, “Quo Vadimus?”, The Adelphi (January 1930)
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“We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny.” — E. B. White, Letter to Janice White (1952-04-27)
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