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Burton Rascoe

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Burton Rascoe was an American journalist and critic who made significant contributions to the fields of literature and politics. Born on October 22, 1892, in New York City, he passed away on March 19, 1957. Rascoe's career as a journalist spanned several decades, during which he was known for his insightful commentary on American literature and politics.

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“No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only get nothing out of it but that you will have toward the book and its author a repugnance that is unwarranted.”

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“What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.”

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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.”

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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.”

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

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

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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.”

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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.”

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Born: October 22, 1892
Died: March 19, 1957
Known for: Journalist
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