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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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

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

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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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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

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

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

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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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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

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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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Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.

The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

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