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"The future, wave or no wave, seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done."
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E. B. WhiteA despot doesnt fear eloquent writers preaching freedom — he fears a d — E. B. White
"A despot doesnt fear eloquent writers preaching freedom — he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold."
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E. B. White
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Elwyn Brooks White was an American writer, essayist, and a contributing editor for The New Yorker magazine. He was also the author of highly popular books for children: Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970).
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"I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised my fears so much as your editorial, on Thanksgiving Day, suggesting that employees should be required to state their beliefs in order to hold their jobs. The idea is inconsistent with our constitutional theory and has been stubbornly opposed by watchful men since the early days of the Republic."
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"Commuter — one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again."
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"Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams — 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."
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"I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of lifes more stereotyped roles."
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"Its broccoli, dear." "I say its spinach, and I say the hell with it."
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