The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to more readily or with quicker intelligence. In ways that we do not easily or willingly define,… — 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
