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Brooks Atkinson Quotes

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The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) After each war there is a little less democracy to save  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) In every age ‘the good old days’ were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) There is a good deal of solemn can’t about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat.  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) Don’t be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) In every age ‘the good old days’ were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) After each war there is a little less democracy left to save  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) Nothing wholly admirable ever happens in this country except the migration of birds  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) The cocktail party... Is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) Don’t be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes) There is a good deal of solemn can’t about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat  (Brooks Atkinson Quotes)
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