Burton Rascoe Quotes

• What no wife of a writer can ever understand...is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

  Burton Rascoe

  Writing, Wife, Window

  "Shake Well Before Using: A New Collection of Impressions and Anecdotes, Mostly Humorous" by Bennett Cerf, (p. 118), 1948.

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• Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art is energy deflected from its normal course in action.

  Burton Rascoe

  Girl, Lonely, Art

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• A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.

  Burton Rascoe

  Color, People, Important

  "Useful Quotations : A Cyclopedia of Quotations" edited by Tryon Edwards, C. N. Catrevas, and Jonathan Edwards, 1933.

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• I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.

  Burton Rascoe

  Stuff, Bad Stuff

  "The Pumpkin Coach". Book by Louis Paul, 1935.

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• American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian, don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the idea were to keep all they know to themselves.

  Burton Rascoe

  Jobs, Light, Ideas

  "Fanfare" by Burton Rascoe in "H. L. Mencken", 1920.

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• I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.

  Burton Rascoe

  Attitude, Men, Fifteen

  "Contemporary Reminiscences". Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26, (p. 50), 1927.

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