Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained. — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man. — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it.… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
In the deeper layers of the modern consciousnessevery attempt to succeed is an act of aggression, leaving one alone and guilty and defenseless among… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
