24 ordspråk av Brooks Atkinson
Brooks Atkinson
Brooks Atkinson föddes den November 28th 1894 och dog den 14 January 1984 - US writer
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 People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know. |
| The Blonde in the Thunderbird |
| The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring. |
| The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside |
| The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. |
| The only important thing a writer needs is a subject. What the reader hungers after is not accomplished craftsmanship nor even correct grammar but a frank report of the things a writer has done, seen, and thought. None of these can be learned in the library or classroom. They have to be learned in the unsheltered world of living where me get slivers of the truth beaten into their heads. |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking |
| There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town. |
| When Mr. Wilbur calls his play 'Halfway to Hell,' he underestimates the distance. |
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Proverb (1469539 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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