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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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

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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

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

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

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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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