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Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.


Van Wyck Brooks

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PHILLIPS BROOKS Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Just keep taking chances and having fun.
GARTH BROOKS In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told peo...
RODNEY BROOKS When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that th...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other eth...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing wi...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, e...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this ident...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS First fight. Then fiddle.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poem...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it wer...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing t...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS We are each other's magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's ins...
SCOTT BROOKS I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for ...
SCOTT BROOKS Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But i...
MEL BROOKS Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
PHILLIPS BROOKS I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a...
ALBERT BROOKS It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
GARTH BROOKS We rode pretty hard for about 30 or 40 kilometers, but eventually it got a bit disorganized. There w...
BEN BROOKS