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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Comes Friend Good Often Someone True True Friend

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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

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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.

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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

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