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There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Brooks Atkinson

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

Brooks Atkinson

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Brooks Atkinson

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Brooks Atkinson

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

Brooks Atkinson

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

Brooks Atkinson

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

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After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

Brooks Atkinson

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

Brooks Atkinson