15 ordspråk av Van Wyck Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks föddes den 16 Februar 1886 och dog den 2 Mai 1963 - whose Finders and Makers series traces American literary history in rich biographical detail from 1800 to 1915.
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 A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound. |
| As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. |
| Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. |
| If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset? |
| It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans. |
| Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. |
| Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. |
| Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. |
| People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. |
| The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, . . . by newspapers and the Bible. |
| The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses |
| The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses |
| The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. |
| There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few |
| Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background. |
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Sprichwort (1469539 st) Suche
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Autoren (167535 st) Suche
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Geboren (10495 st)
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Daten (9517 st)
Länder (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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