Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well… — 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
