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Van Wyck Brooks: It is not...

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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.

Source: From a Writer's Notebook, 1958.
-- Van Wyck Brooks, (Feb 16 1886-1963), US literary critic, cultural historian; He saw literature as an outgrowth of a national culture; wrote America's Coming of Age, 1915.


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