Famous Van Wyck Brooks Quotations

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"As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day."
by Van Wyck Brooks
"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means."
by Van Wyck Brooks
"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible."
by Van Wyck Brooks
"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses."
by Van Wyck Brooks
"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."
by Van Wyck Brooks
"Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us."
by Van Wyck Brooks


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