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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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

Cracked Pot Found Genius Intelligence More Often One Pot Whole

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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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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

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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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Be obscure clearly.

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

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

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Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

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