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Brooks Atkinson
American
Critic
About the author
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,
American
Critic
#People
#Thinking
#Responsibility
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Brooks Atkinson,
American
Critic
#Thinking
#Years
#Men
#Education
#Knowledge
#College
#Poetry
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,
American
Critic
#Life
#Growth
#Illusion
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,
American
Critic
#Time
#People
#Thought
#Old
#Age
#Myth
Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.
Brooks Atkinson,
American
Critic
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,
American
Critic
#God
#Past
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
Brooks Atkinson,
American
Critic
#Day
#First
#Labor
After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
Brooks Atkinson,
American
Critic
#War
#Democracy
There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
Brooks Atkinson,
American
Critic
#Play
#Joy
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
Brooks Atkinson,
American
Critic
#Life
#Truth