Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

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.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

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

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

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.

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.

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

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The state security bodies should not be seen as an institution that works against society and the state; one needs to understand what makes them work against their own people.

We're really blessed that we've been as well received as we have been.

Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

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