“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water'.”

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water”

“The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.”

“I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.”

“Of course, if I had misbehaved that day, my dinner was a salad made entirely out of iceberg lettuce, with water on top instead of dressing. It was like cabbage soup without the dignity.
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“New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.”