Van Wyck Brooks Quotes

• Las personas magnánimas no tienen vanidad, no tienen envidia, y se alimentan de lo verdadero y lo sólido dondequiera que lo encuentren. Y, lo que es más, lo encuentran en todas partes.

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  Jealousy, Vanity, People

  Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton

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• Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

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  Genius, Virtue, Found

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• Qué agradable es la compañía de personas generosas, que pasan por alto nimiedades y mantienen su mente instintivamente fija en todo lo que es bueno y positivo en el mundo que les rodea. La gente de bajo calibre siempre está quejándose. Se empeñan en demostrar su propia superioridad, sus conocimientos, sus proezas o su buena educación. Pero las personas magnánimas no tienen vanidad, no tienen celos, y se alimentan de lo verdadero y lo sólido allí donde lo encuentran. Y lo que es más, lo encuentran en todas partes.

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  Motivational, Vanity, People

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• No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Book, Men, Firsts

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• Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

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  People, Looks, Sides

  Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton

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• Frente a tener hermosos talleres, estudios, etc., uno escribe mejor en un sótano en un día de lluvia.

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  Beautiful, Writing, Rainy Day

  Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton

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• Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

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  Family, Self Esteem, Ancestry

  Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton

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• Los impulsos creativos del hombre están siempre en guerra con los impulsos posesivos.

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  War, Creativity, Men

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• Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.

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  Mean, Standards, Worldly

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• Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

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  World, Littles, Herbs

  Van Wyck Brooks (1944). “Literature in New England: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865. New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915”, New York Garden City [1944]

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• How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

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  Gente, Mente, Mundo

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• 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.

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  Swans, Profound, Wells

  Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton

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• People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken about this or that. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or their prowess or good breeding.

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  People, Bent, Prowess

  "Opinions of Oliver Allston".

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

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  Jobs, Men, Evil

  Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

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• Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

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  Vistas, punto de vista

  Van Wyck Brooks (1968). “Van Wyck Brooks: the early years: a selection from his works, 1908-1921”

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• El hombre que tiene el valor de sus tópicos es siempre un hombre de éxito.

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  Successful, Men, He Man

  Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton

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• No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.

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  Running, Country, Roots

  Van Wyck Brooks (1961). “From the Shadow of the Mountain: My Post-meridian Years”, New York : E.P. Dutton

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• The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

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  Diversión, Hombres, Pensamiento

  Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

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• 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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  Book, Mind, Newspapers

  Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

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• Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

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  Oxygen, Never Forget, Monopoly

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• The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

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  Writing, Important, Territory

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• Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

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  Barrels, Organs

  Van Wyck Brooks (1968). “Van Wyck Brooks: the early years: a selection from his works, 1908-1921”

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• Nadie está en condiciones de juzgar un libro hasta que no haya doblado el Cabo de Hornos en un velero, hasta que no se haya topado con dos o tres icebergs, hasta que no se haya perdido en las arenas del desierto, hasta que no haya pasado unos años en la Casa de los Muertos.

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  Inspirador, Divertido, Libro

  Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

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• 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.

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  Religious, Ignorance, Political

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• A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.

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  Fun, Successful, Men

  Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

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