Quotes by Brooks Atkinson

Brooks Atkinson

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

Democracy

Littles

War

Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke. In the world of birds a symposium on the purpose of life would be inconceivable. They do not need it. We are not that self-reliant. We are the ones who have lost our way.

Bird

Nature

Self

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

People

Sides

Theatre

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

Ideas

Men

Two

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

Daily Life

Guilt

Shame

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God’s work.

Diversity

Justice

Long

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.

Age

Atheism

People

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

Ideals

People

Perspective

Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.

Degenerates

People

Spirit

New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.

Assuming

New York

Rain

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Lonely

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Party

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Perfect

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Quotes by Brooks Atkinson

Brooks Atkinson

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God’s work.

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.

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.

New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.

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