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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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

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

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

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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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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

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

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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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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

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I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.

When you have a girlfriend, there are many things that are irritating every day, every night. I'm sure it's different for everyone, but when you fight, it gets really annoying.

Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.

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I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

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