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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

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.

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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 arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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

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Be obscure clearly.

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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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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

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

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

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I don't have a problem with recognition… It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'… It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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Radicals can be found in any environment.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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