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Elwyn Brooks White

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

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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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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep… Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

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