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Van Wyck Brooks quotes: Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

Van Wyck Brooks quotes: Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

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 quotes: Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

Van Wyck Brooks quotes: Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

Van Wyck Brooks quotes: Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

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 quotes: Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

Van Wyck Brooks quotes: As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

Van Wyck Brooks quotes: Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

Van Wyck Brooks quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

Van Wyck Brooks quotes: Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

Van Wyck Brooks quotes: The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Van Wyck Brooks quotes: If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

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 quotes: People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

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 quotes: The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Van Wyck Brooks quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

Van Wyck Brooks quotes: The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me ... by newspapers and the Bible.

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 quotes: Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.