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Brooks Atkinson Quotes and Quotations
Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers. Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be. The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens. This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action. |