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Brooks Atkinson quotes: It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

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

Brooks Atkinson quotes: In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

Brooks Atkinson quotes: Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

Brooks Atkinson 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.

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 quotes: Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

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.

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

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

Brooks Atkinson quotes: Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

Brooks Atkinson quotes: Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

Brooks Atkinson quotes: New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.

New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.

Brooks Atkinson quotes: There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound.

There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound.

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.

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: 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.

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.

Brooks Atkinson quotes: Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Brooks Atkinson quotes: The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

Brooks Atkinson quotes: I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

Brooks Atkinson quotes: We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.

We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.

Brooks Atkinson quotes: 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.

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: 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.

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: Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

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

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

Brooks Atkinson quotes: The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Brooks Atkinson quotes: After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

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