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1899–1985 United States
Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American essayist, columnist, poet and editor. He is best known today for his work in a writers' guide, The Elements of Style, and for three children's books Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan generally regarded as classics.
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Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half asleep.
One Man's Meat (1942)
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear.
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
One Man's Meat (1942)
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
One Man's Meat (1942)
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 scientific mind.
No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
Here is New York (1949)
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
One Man's Meat (1942)
In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer who might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm.
"It's broccoli, dear."
I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
One Man's Meat (1942)
The future, wave or no wave, seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
One Man's Meat (1942)
Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words.
If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.
Did it ever occur to you that there's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another?
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
It is the oldest flag in the world, the original one, you might say. We are now, in an original condition again, you might say.
The Wild Flag (1943)
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom — he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
One Man's Meat (1942)
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
One Man's Meat (1944)
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