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Van Wyck Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks
American Critic
Born: Feb 16, 1886
Died: May 2, 1963
Always Few Knowledge Man People World
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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
Good Knowledge People Own Bent Superiority Small Caliber Always Prowess Breeding Good Breeding Showing
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. Van Wyck Brooks
Book Judge Three Lost Few Spent Has-Been Horn No-One He Until House Dead Sailing Been Years Fit Bumped Vessel Cape Sands Desert Rounded Two
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
World Job Evil Men Giving Bad Would Bother Outset Instead Were Up Improve Who Basically
Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. Van Wyck Brooks
Nothing Worldly Having Sadder Without Than Means Standards
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible. Van Wyck Brooks
Me Bible Mind Unlike Books Once Said American Formed Newspapers English
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. Van Wyck Brooks
Knowledge Ignorance World Political Few Religious Tendency Throw Imposed Off Authority Stopping Many Based

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