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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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.

Critic Curtain Fall Find He Leaves Play Review Starting

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

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

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

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

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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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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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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

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Quotes of the Hour

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
Kurt Cobain
I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.
Kurt Cobain
Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win.
Vladimir Putin
I dress for men.
L'Wren Scott
I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
B. B King

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