1. Elwyn Brooks White
Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White was an American writer, best known as the author of children's books Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, and as the co-author of the widely used language guide The Elements of Style.E. B. White graduated from Cornell more..

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#Weather

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#Past

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Elwyn Brooks White:Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention. #Love

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#Love

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#Courage

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Elwyn Brooks White:The rules of The Elements of Style were as simple to state — "Omit needless words" — as they were difficult to obey. #Writers and Writing

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Elwyn Brooks White: It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune. #Festivals

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#Politicians and Politics

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Elwyn Brooks White:New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine. #Cities and City Life

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#Love

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Elwyn Brooks White:In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living. #Books - Reading

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#Friends and Friendship

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#Neighbors

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Elwyn Brooks White: You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing... #Friends and Friendship

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Elwyn Brooks White: 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 during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs. #Writers and Writing

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Elwyn Brooks White: Commuter -- one who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; And man who shaves and takes a train, and then rides back to shave again. #Commuters

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Elwyn Brooks White: Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. #Automobiles

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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go. #Writers and Writing

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Elwyn Brooks White: A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour. #Politicians and Politics

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Elwyn Brooks White: Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. #Obscenity

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