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Van Wyck Brooks: Nothing is so...

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

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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