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Van Wyck Brooks has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it.…
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.
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As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped…
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Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the…
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Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
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No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and…
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Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and…
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of…
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The buzz is still with me. I get goose bumps.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose…
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Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.
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Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
— Aesop
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Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing…
— Frances Ford Seymour
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When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.
— Frank Shorter
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It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
— John Lyly
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Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of…
— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
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The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight…
— H. L. Mencken
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I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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