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Him Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of…
- In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity…
- Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day,…
- It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live…
- A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away,…
- The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and if…
- 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…
- The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
- Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.
- And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before.…
- Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great…
- When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.
- There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support…
- Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that is familiar to…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his… — Clara Barton
- Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that… — Paulo Coelho
- Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that… — Cassandra Clare