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Anything Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to…
- People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
- 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…
- The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show…
- 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…
- Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,'…
- The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness,…
- I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
- Have you ever found anything that gives you relief?"... "Yes. A drink
- Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed…
- Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most…
- Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.
- There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is…
- If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach