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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.

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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 terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

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A writer is like a bean plant – he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

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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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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

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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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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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