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Brooks Atkinson Quotes


An American theatre critic.
Justin Brooks Atkinson (November 28, 1894 – January 14, 1984) was an American theatre critic. He worked for The New York Times from 1925 to 1960. In his obituary, the Times called him "the most important reviewer of his time."

Here are some famous quotes by Brooks Atkinson.

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

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Life is seldom as unendurable as to judge by the facts it logically ought to be.

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The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

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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.

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We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

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This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness business men who were not afraid of failure scientists who were not afraid of the truth thinkers who were not afraid of progress dreamers who were not afraid of action.