John Mason Brown Citas

• Un buen conversador no es el que recuerda lo que se dijo, sino el que dice lo que alguien quiere recordar.

  John Mason Brown

  Communication, Want, Remember

  George Cooper Stevens, John Mason Brown (1974). “Speak for yourself, John: the life of John Mason Brown, with some of his letters and many of his opinions”, Viking Adult

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• En ningún lugar se confunden más los prejuicios con la verdad, la pasión con la razón y la invectiva con la documentación que en la política.

  John Mason Brown

  Witty, Passion, Political

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• No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

  John Mason Brown

  Happiness, Disappointment, Heart

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• Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

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  Believe, People, Legends

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

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  Women, Light, Becoming

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• I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

  John Mason Brown

  Reality, Long, Enough

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• A menudo robamos los recuerdos de mañana con las economías de hoy.

  John Mason Brown

  Memories, Today, Tomorrow

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• It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

  John Mason Brown

  Writing, Winning, Agony

  "Still seeing things".

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

  John Mason Brown

  Education, Children, Reason

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

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  Kings, Humorous, Play

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• Algunos programas de televisión son como un chicle para los ojos.

  John Mason Brown

  Eye, Television, Gum

  Interview, 28 July 1955, quoted in James B. Simpson, Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (1957).

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• The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.

  John Mason Brown

  Book, Kids, Home

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• El crítico es un hombre que prefiere la indolencia de la opinión a las pruebas de la acción.

  John Mason Brown

  Men, Trials, Action

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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.

  John Mason Brown

  Circles, Cities, People

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• Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

  John Mason Brown

  Work, Order, People

  George Cooper Stevens, John Mason Brown (1974). “Speak for yourself, John: the life of John Mason Brown, with some of his letters and many of his opinions”, Viking Adult

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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.

  John Mason Brown

  Writing, Vanity, Mirrors

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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.

  John Mason Brown

  Life, Education, Purpose

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• Estados Unidos es una tierra donde gobiernan los hombres, pero mandan las mujeres.

  John Mason Brown

  Funny, Women, Land

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• What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.

  John Mason Brown

  Joy, Bigger Better, Immersion

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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.

  John Mason Brown

  Home, Heaven, Causes

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

  John Mason Brown

  Pregunta

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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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  Way, Martyrdom, Eternal

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

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  Tattoo, People, Criticism

  John Mason Brown (1940). “Broadway in review”

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• Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

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  Education, Thinking, Sheep

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• What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

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  Sueño, Hombres, Pensamiento

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