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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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

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

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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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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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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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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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

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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess – she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
B. B King
I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
D'Angelo
A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky.
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Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
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