1,140 Quotes by E. B. White

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    Try this. At a dinner party sometime, kick off the conversation with: ""I believe that the most important objective for every human being is to be right."" Then sit back and watch the fireworks

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    A lot of the location decision related to what I did in the hotel business. Although I didn't have to decide where to build those hotels, I did have to decide who my market was.

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    We struggled against a good football team but I'm proud of the way we responded and very pleased with the way we ran the ball.

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    Real world, certain positions come with certain perks, and I'm not opposed to having certain perks as long as there's no hint of impropriety

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    The wind didn't start in the late innings. It's been blowing all day and we've known it. We just didn't make plays in it.

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    In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

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    What you've got right now is a technology that is jury-rigged from old technology. It was never really designed to provide a high-bandwidth connection and frankly doesn't do a good job of it.

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