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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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

Absolutely Sure American American Believes Himself Humor Sense 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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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

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

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

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

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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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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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Quotes of the Hour

I read papers, try to watch news programs on television, but, as a rule, recorded. During the day I have no time for that, so I watch something taped. As for the newspapers, I try to get through them every day. Additionally, of course, I look through news bulletins.
Vladimir Putin
I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
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I think we should not control the Internet.
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I was going to be a doctor since I was three, so I was pre-med in college. Everything I did, every class I took, pointed toward the 'holy M.D.' Friends were taking wine-tasting classes, studying human sexuality, or redefining their views of the world in poli-sci, and I was memorizing anatomy and crying over o-chem.
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