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"If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass."
"How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt."
"Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was."
"Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?"
"The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show."
"The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted."
"Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make."
"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."
Explore more quotes by Van Wyck Brooks
"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere."
"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."
"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."
"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?"
"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."
"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."
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