Heywood Broun

Heywood Broun (1888–1939) was an American journalist, sportswriter and newspaper columnist in New York City. He founded the American Newspaper Guild, now known as The Newspaper Guild.

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• The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.
  • "Bring on the Artist", New York World Telegram, June 19, 1933

• There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.
  • "A New Preface to an Old Story", Broun's Nutmeg, August 19, 1939

• Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
  • Collected Edition of Heywood Broun, compiled by Heywood Hale Broun. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1941, page 26

• Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
  • Quoted by Lin Yutang in The Wisdom of China and India (1942)

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• Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.
• 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.
• Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
• Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
• I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
• Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
• The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
• The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
• 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.
• The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
• The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

External links

• Works by Heywood Broun at Project Gutenberg