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Elwyn Brooks White quotes
“English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.”
— Elwyn Brooks White
“The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.”
— Elwyn Brooks White
“The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.”
— Elwyn Brooks White
“All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.”
— Elwyn Brooks White
“A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.”
— Elwyn Brooks White
“I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.”
— Elwyn Brooks White
“When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.”
— Elwyn Brooks White
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