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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

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

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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

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

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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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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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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

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