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Category: Van Wyck Brooks

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.

Good, Small, People

Van Wyck Brooks

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Man, Creative, Always

Van Wyck Brooks

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

Van Wyck Brooks

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

craft, genre, imagination, relevance

Van Wyck Brooks

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

craft, genre, imagination, relevance