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There is no stopping the worl...

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

Earnest people are often peop...

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

Those of our writers who have...

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

A man who has the courage of ...

A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

How delightful is the company...

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

How delightful is the company...

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

As against having beautiful w...

As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

The American mind, unlike the...

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

Nothing is so soothing to our...

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

Never forget that it is we Ne...

Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

Nothing is sadder than having...

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

People of small caliber are a...

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

The creative impulses of man ...

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

No one is fit to judge a book...

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

Genius and virtue are to be m...

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

The American mind, unlike the...

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

Magnanimous people have no va...

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

Nothing is sadder than the co...

Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

The American mind, unlike the ...

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

Earnest people are often peopl...

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

Van Wyck Brooks 39 quotes

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