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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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

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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

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

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

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

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Be obscure clearly.

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

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I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.
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