Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
