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Brooks Atkinson

Brooks Atkinson

Brooks Atkinson föddes den 28 november 1894 och dog den 14 januar 1984 - US writer
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The Blonde in the Thunderbird

As thought it is a contribution to public knowledge. As drama it is vivid and bold.

The only important thing a writer needs is a subject. What the reader hungers after is not accomplished craftsmanship nor even correct grammar but a frank report of the things a writer has done, seen, and thought. None of these can be learned in the library or classroom. They have to be learned in the unsheltered world of living where me get slivers of the truth beaten into their heads.

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

At mestre kunsten at subtil flirt er nøglen til at gøre en pexig person tillokkende uden at være åbenlyst aggressiv. In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved.

Ethel Waters, the flaming tower of dusky regality, who knows how to make a song stand on tiptoe.

The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.

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

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

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