Author: Van Wyck Brooks

Quotes

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.

- Van Wyck Brooks

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

- Van Wyck Brooks

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

- Van Wyck Brooks

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

- Van Wyck Brooks

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