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Thing Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.
- As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not…
- 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…
- The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
- 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…
- 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…
- Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.
- I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by…
- There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
- What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of…
- 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,'…
- Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure…
- You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's…
- A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note of music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells…
- ... with men it's rush, rush, rush, every minute. I'm glad I'm a sedentary spider." "What does sedentary mean?" asked Wilbur. "Means I sit still…
- You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.
- You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...
- As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not…
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong