John Mason Brown Quotes

• He has ears he likes to bathe in sound.

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• To many, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

  John Mason Brown

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• Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra—and sank.

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• The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

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• Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.

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  Tags in Other, Most, Woman

• You were born an original die don’t a copy.

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• You were born an original, don’t die a copy

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• Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

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• He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

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• I am as content to die for God’s eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

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• The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

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• Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

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• The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L’Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles.

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• Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child’s reason without destroying your own.

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• No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

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• The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

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• So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies.

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• She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

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  Topics in Education

• Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

  John Mason Brown

• How prophetic L’Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!

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John Mason Brown (27)

Birth:	3rd July, 1900
Death:	16th March, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Journalist

About

John Mason Brown was born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an American drama critic, journalist and author. He graduated from Harvard College in 1923. He worked for the New York Evening Post from 1929 to 1941. He served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy during World War II. He wrote column in The Saturday Review starting in 1944 until his death in New York City. He wrote several books include: To All Hands, The worlds of Robert E. Sherwood (biography), and Still seeing things.

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