Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

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• The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while… Adequate
• The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a… All
• Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes. Child
• A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape… Anything Solid
• In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Attention
• A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want… Atlases
• Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up. Accumulation
• Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp -… Barn
• A right is a responsibility in reverse. Inspirational
• 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… Arise
• Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Facts
• Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. Analyzing
• Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. Cracked
• It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Along
• The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. Broadmindedness
• 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… Bright
• Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. Car
• We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. All
• 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… Able
• A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. Farmer

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