Famous Brooks Atkinson Quotations

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"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them."
by Brooks Atkinson
"Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first."
by Brooks Atkinson
"The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty."
by Brooks Atkinson
"The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility."
by Brooks Atkinson
"We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens."
by 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."
by Brooks Atkinson


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