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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."

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Akiroq Brost

"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum."

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"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."

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"The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct."

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"The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible."

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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."

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"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

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"If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass."

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"The Bible is literature, not dogma."

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"I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is."

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"In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions."

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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."

Bible

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Van Wyck Brooks
"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses."

War

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Van Wyck Brooks
"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?"

Man

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Van Wyck Brooks
"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."

Knowledge

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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."

People

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Van Wyck Brooks
"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."

Perception

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Van Wyck Brooks
"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright."

Genius

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Van Wyck Brooks
"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."

Success

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Van Wyck Brooks
"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."

Experience

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Van Wyck Brooks
"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."

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