American - Journalist | December 7, 1888 - December 18, 1939
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Broun
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Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
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All spiritual things must have in them a childlike quality. The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again.
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People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.
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I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
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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.
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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
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Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is everything.
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The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
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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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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
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I have always held to the theory that too much chalk may be just as bad for a novel as for a knee joint.
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