John Mason Brown (July 3, 1900 – March 16, 1969) was an American drama critic and author.[1] (wikipedia)
What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.
So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.
Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.
What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.
