"People of small caliber are always carping. They……" — Van Wyck Brooks
"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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22 Quotes by Van Wyck Brooks
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- The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.
- As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
- No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he…
- Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is…
- Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
- No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
- The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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- Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.
- The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by…
- The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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