"To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like……" — John Mason Brown
"To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles."
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30 Quotes by John Mason Brown
John Mason Brown has 30 quotes on this site.
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
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A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
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What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
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Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest…
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She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it…
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God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things…
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It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant…
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So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.
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The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.
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The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors…
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Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
— Max Baucus
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
— Kate Beckinsale
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
— Michael Bloomberg
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