"It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge."

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Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

Brooks Atkinson

#Graduation Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.”
“It gets better. It gets so much easier to be in your skin no matter what size that skin is. If you do something that you're good at and that makes you happy, that's the best outlet that I could ever suggest to anybody....if you are able to just enjoy who you are, and if you can learn to love who you are, then you'll just be a much happier person.”

Source : "The secret diary of Claire Danes" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.
“Women play into each other's weaknesses.”
“For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.”
“I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.”
“For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.”

Source : 1913 'Brumana'.
“It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.”

Source : "Rodney Mullen Skates Central Park". Interview with Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.
“He looked down at his empty glass. "One of the other ways in which I am different from my father," he said. "I am not interested in marrying where I do not love." I spoke in a jesting voice. "And of all the women in the eight provinces, you have not been able to find one you could love?" Now he looked at me again, and his face was completely serious. "That's the problem," he said. "There is one.”

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