Brooks Atkinson

The evil that...

The evil that...

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically...

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I have no...

I have no...

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

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Every man with...

Every man with...

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

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Don't be condescending...

Don't be condescending...

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

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Good plays drive...

Good plays drive...

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

Source: Theatre Arts, Aug 1956.
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The cocktail party...

The cocktail party...

The cocktail party . . . is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making...

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The most fatal...

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...

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It seems not...

It seems not...

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

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Nothing a man...

Nothing a man...

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing...

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The perfect bureaucrat...

The perfect bureaucrat...

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all...

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Ethel Waters, the...

Ethel Waters, the...

Ethel Waters, the flaming tower of dusky regality, who knows how to make a song stand on...

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In the 1920s...

In the 1920s...

In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

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We cheerfully assume...

We cheerfully assume...

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the...

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After each war...

After each war...

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

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