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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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

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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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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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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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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

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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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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

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

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

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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

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