E. B. White Quotes About Looks
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The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.
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Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
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Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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