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Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Confronted by seven tall, cloaked figures, dark and foreboding, all armed.
— Alan Dean Foster
Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings.
— John Gimlette
I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy.
— Robert Vaughn
I love to take baths.
— Rachel Weisz
As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Work could cure almost anything
— Ernest Hemingway,
No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.
— Van Wyck Brooks
The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.
— Van Wyck Brooks
No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.
— Oliver DeMille
Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
— Van Wyck Brooks
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
— Van Wyck Brooks
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
— Van Wyck Brooks
I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
— Bertolt Brecht
The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.
— Van Wyck Brooks
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
— Van Wyck Brooks
And I am right where I am because of His plan for my life.
— Jeanne Stone Helstrom
No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
— Van Wyck Brooks
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me ... by newspapers and the Bible.
— Van Wyck Brooks
He didn't ask what she was thinking, he didn't intrude; he would wait until she wanted to tell him.
— Kristin Cashore
Our national parks are memory palaces where our personal histories reside.
— Terry Tempest Williams