Heywood Broun

Journalist

1888-12-07

Books by Heywood Broun

A subtreasury of American humor
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The boy grew older
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Seeing things at night
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Quotes by Heywood Broun

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
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Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.
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The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
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Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.
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Perhaps the most startling reversal of tradition came in the case of Lefty Grove. He shattered the cruel slanders which have always followed lefthanders.
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Every now and then, we hear parents commenting on the fearful things which motion pictures may do to the minds of children. They seem to think that a little child is full of sweetness and of light. We had the same notion until we had a chance to listen intently to the prattle of a three-year-old.
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Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.
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Life is not a matter of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It calls on the young and the old alike to face these facts, even though they are hard and sometimes unpleasant.
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The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.
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There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways of holding a baby-and all are right.
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They are so small and so helpless that they contribute vastly to a comforting glow in the ego of the grown-up.
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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
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The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
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Free speech is about as good a cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favor of things which seem at some given moment more vital.
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I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
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History is largely concerned with arranging good entrances for people; and later exits not always quite so good.
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
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The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost Wilis.
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Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.
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Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them.
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