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

Van Wyck Brooks

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“Money solves a lot of problems and when you don't have money, you've got to do all this other stuff to solve the problem. It's very hard. I would love to have not necessarily a studio because then you lose so much control but I would love to have decent independent financing where I have the freedom and I have the money to do it right, to not be asking people to work for free or to work for half the rate and not ask those favors again and again because I now owe all these people back who've helped me.”

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“Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.”
“Every little thing wants to be loved.”
“I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.”
“We are prophets of a future not our own.”
“Believe that story false that ought not to be true.”
“What a world we live in. I want to be incredibly close to the heart of it all. To live honestly, truthfully and to be completely present is the ultimate enterprise. And right now, I couldnâ€™t possibly ask for anything more. I am a very lucky girl.”
“To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.49, Prestwick House Inc

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