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1892–1957 United States
Arthur Burton Rascoe (22 October 1892 – 19 March 1957) was an American journalist, editor and literary critic. His most famous work, Titans of Literature, appeared in 1932.
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Perfection is a costly flower and is cultured only by an uncompromising, strict husbandry.
Introduction to Chivalry (1921)
What no wife of a writer can ever understand, no matter if she lives with him for twenty years, is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.
Bennett Cerf in Shake Well Before Using (1948)
American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs.
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.
Useful Quotations : A Cyclopedia of Quotations (1933)
It is the quality and intensity of the dream only which raises men above the biological norm; and it is fidelity to the dream which differentiates the exceptional figure, the man of heroic stature, from the muddling, aimless mediocrities about him.
Introduction to Chivalry (1921)
I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.
the dedication to The Pumpkin Coach (1935)
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.
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