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magazine, he also wrote many famous books for both adults and children, such as the popular Charlotte's Web
and Stuart Little
, and co-authored a widely used writing guide, The Elements of Style
, popularly known by its authors' names, as "Strunk & White."
White was born in Albany, New York, the youngest child of Samuel Johnson, a piano manufacturer, and Jessie Hart.
"It's broccoli, dear." "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."
Commuter — one who spends his lifeIn riding to and from his wife;A man who shaves and takes a trainAnd then rides back to shave again.
I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.
Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams — Joseph (Hebrew Bible)|Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.
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.