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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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

Elwyn Brooks White

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.

Elwyn Brooks White

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.

Elwyn Brooks White

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

Elwyn Brooks White

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

Elwyn Brooks White

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.

Elwyn Brooks White

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Elwyn Brooks White

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

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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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I've come to realize ways of making music without being excessive.
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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
K'naan
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
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