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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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

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

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

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

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