After each war there is a little less democracy to save. |
As thought it is a contribution to public knowledge. As drama it is vivid and bold. |
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. |
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. |
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. |
Ethel Waters, the flaming tower of dusky regality, who knows how to make a song stand on tiptoe. |
Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers |
Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy. |
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 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved. |
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. |
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. |
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. |
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation. |