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> [We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/we-tolerate-differences-of-opinion-in-people-who-are-familiar-to-us/)

[Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/)

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## More by Brooks Atkinson

> [It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/it-seems-not-to-have-been-written-it-is-the-quintessence-of-life-it/)

[Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/)

> [After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/after-each-war-there-is-a-little-less-democracy-left-to-save/)

[Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/)

> [Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/good-plays-drive-bad-playgoers-crazy/)

[Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/)

> [Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/poetry-is-as-vital-to-thinking-as-knowledge/)

[Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/)

> [After each war there is a little less democracy to save.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/after-each-war-there-is-a-little-less-democracy-to-save/)

[Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/)

> [New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/new-yorkers-are-inclined-to-assume-it-will-never-rain-and-certainly/)

[Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/)

> [Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/nothing-a-man-writes-can-please-him-as-profoundly-as-something-he/)

[Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/)

> [It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/it-takes-most-men-five-years-to-recover-from-a-college-education-and/)

[Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/)

> [I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/i-have-no-objections-to-churches-so-long-as-they-do-not-interfere/)

[Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/)

> [There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/there-is-a-good-deal-of-solemn-cant-about-the-common-interests-of/)

[Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/)

> [The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/the-evil-that-men-do-lives-on-the-front-pages-of-greedy-newspapers/)

[Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/)

> [There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/there-should-be-a-dash-of-the-amateur-in-criticism-for-the-amateur-is/)

[Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/)

> [The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/the-most-fatal-illusion-is-the-settled-point-of-view-since-life-is/)

[Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/)

> [Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/materialism-is-decadent-and-degenerate-only-if-the-spirit-of-the/)

[Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/)

> [People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/people-everywhere-enjoy-believing-things-that-they-know-are-not-true/)

[Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/)

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