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

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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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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

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

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

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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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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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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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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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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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