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

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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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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

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

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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

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

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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.

Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.

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U.S. society doesn't want to play the role of international policeman.

Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.

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