Heywood Broun (1888 – 1939)
American journalist, sportswriter and newspaper columnist in New York City.
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The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.
Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
In the march up to the heights of fame, there comes a spot close to the summit in which a man reads nothing but detective stories.
Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
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