Heywood Broun Quotes

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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

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The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

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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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The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

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Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.

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God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight begins.

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He moved through a movie scene like an exquisite paper knife.

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Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.

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I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

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Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

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"Trees" maddens me, because it contains the most insincere line ever written by mortal man. Surely the Kilmer tongue must have been not far from the Kilmer cheek when he wrote, "Poems are made by fools like me."

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Obscenity is such a tiny kingdom that a single tour covers it completely.

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Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

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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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Life is a copycat and can be bullied into following the master artist who bids it come to heel.

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There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.

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The only real argument for marriage is that it remains the best method for getting acquainted.

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