It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
E. B. WhiteWhy is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?
E. B. WhiteThurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
E. B. WhiteThe main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and if he's going to the trouble of reading what I've written -- I'm a slow reader myself and I guess most people are -- why, the least I can do is make it as easy as possible for him to find out what I'm trying to say, trying to get at. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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