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

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Be obscure clearly.

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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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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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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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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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