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Full Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- 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.…
- A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be…
- The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
- 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…
- A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all…
- The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss-a drafty wench,…
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