Van Wyck Brooks Quotes - Page 2

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.

Van Wyck Brooks

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

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Born: February 16, 1886
Died: May 2, 1963
Occupation: Literary critic
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