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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

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The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

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

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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

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

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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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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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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

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

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