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In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

~Brooks Atkinson

Topics: Age Crises Days Ever Every Good Good Old Days Intolerable Lived Myth Old Old Days People Seemed Them Thought Through Time Were Who

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

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Topics: Condescending Day First Half Labor Try Unskilled

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It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

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Topics: College College Education Education Five Knowledge Learn Men Most Poetry Recover Takes Thinking Vital Years

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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

~Brooks Atkinson

Topics: Drop Go Go For It God Imperfect Last Last Year Limbo Past Silent Thank Thank God Year

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

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Topics: Come Good Great Joy Play Reporting Town

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

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Topics: Basic Been Life Quintessence Seems Truth Written

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Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

~Brooks Atkinson

Topics: Bad Crazy Drive Good Plays

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People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

~Brooks Atkinson

Topics: Believing Enjoy Everywhere Know Ordeal People Responsibility Spares Taking Them Themselves Things Thinking True

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

~Brooks Atkinson

Topics: After Democracy Each Less Little Save War

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The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

~Brooks Atkinson

Topics: Anybody Fatal Fixed Growth Illusion Life Most Motion Narrow Point Point Of View Since View Who

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: November 28th, 1894

Died: January 14th, 1984

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