Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

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• Salutations; it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning Fancy
• New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white… Aspiration
• The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from… Across
• Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. Decide
• By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. Heaven
• Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day. Another Day
• Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay… Along
• When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have… Aunt
• Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom. Bloom
• The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter… According
• A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals.… Accumulate
• I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber… All
• I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to… Almost Certainly
• A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based… Abstract
• I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands. Believe
• Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in… Able
• A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all… All
• My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin… Adams
• Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme… Alcohol
• America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious. Air

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