"American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian , don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the idea were to keep all they know to themselves."

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Source : "Fanfare" by Burton Rascoe in "H. L. Mencken", 1920.

Burton Rascoe

#Jobs Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Light Quotes

“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.”
“My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.”
“When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamiteâ€s style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.”
“Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.”
“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”
“The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And while the Lord desires that we enjoy His gifts and the people to whom we are joined, He wants us to know that we were created first for His pleasure.”
“And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.”
“You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.”

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