Brooks Atkinson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

12 Famous Quotes by Brooks Atkinson
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“Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.”
Followers Quotes
“The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.”
Bureaucracy Quotes
“The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”
Miscellaneous 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.”
Miscellaneous 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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.”
Miscellaneous 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.”
Miscellaneous 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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.”
Miscellaneous 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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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