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Brooks Atkinson

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 time

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

— Brooks Atkinson day

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 life

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 past

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

— Brooks Atkinson life

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 poetry

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 joy

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

— Brooks Atkinson war

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

— Brooks Atkinson joy

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

— Brooks Atkinson crazy

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 time

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