Quote #2
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.
More from Heywood Broun
- Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.
- Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
- 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.