#me

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. ↗

— E. B. White

#most #things #time-consuming

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. ↗

— E. B. White

#adjustment #age #atom #his #man

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. ↗

— E. B. White

#bent #days #effect #ill #knowingly

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. ↗

— E. B. White

#education #english #getting #judgment #like

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. ↗

— E. B. White

#become #before #eighteen #father #teen years

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative. ↗

— E. B. White

#debates #disarmament #imperative #knights #make

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. ↗

— E. B. White

#absolutely #american #believes #else #himself

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique. ↗

— Edmund White

#experimental #i #i think #realism #sincerity

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire. ↗

— Edmund White

#america #contemporary #defensive #desire #did

Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard. ↗

— Edmund White

#course #guard #me #off #own