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Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

E. B. White
Writing, Merit, Clarity
"The Elements of Style". Book by E. B. White, Ch. V: An Approach to Style, 1959.

The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.

E. B. White
Humor, Artist, World
E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.

E. B. White
Loyalty, Fighting, Tolerance
E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.92, Cornell University Press

Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.

E. B. White
Trying, Too Much, Sometimes

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