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Brooks Atkinson
The evil that...
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically...
I have no...
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
Every man with...
Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
Source: In Quotable...
Don't be condescending...
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
Source:...
Good plays drive...
Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.
Source: Theatre Arts, Aug 1956.
-- Brooks...
The cocktail party...
The cocktail party . . . is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making...
The most fatal...
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills...
It seems not...
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
Nothing a man...
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing...
The perfect bureaucrat...
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all...
Ethel Waters, the...
Ethel Waters, the flaming tower of dusky regality, who knows how to make a song stand on...
In the 1920s...
In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional...
There is no...
There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
We cheerfully assume...
We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the...
After each war...
After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
Source: In Webster's...
The evil that...
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically...
I have no...
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
Every man with...
Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
Source: In Quotable...
Don't be condescending...
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
Source:...
Good plays drive...
Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.
Source: Theatre Arts, Aug 1956.
-- Brooks...
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