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Burton Rascoe

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Also known as Arthur Burton Rascoe

American writer (1892-1957)

Person · Open Library

Born
1892
Died
1957
Works
25

Top works

  • The bachelor's companion
  • The Smart Set anthology
  • The Smart set anthology of world famous authors
  • H.L. Mencken
  • Titans of literature

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

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date of death
1957-03-19
date of birth
1892-10-22
birth name
Arthur Burton Rascoe
place of burial
Ferncliff Cemetery
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