4 Quotes & Sayings By John Horne Burns

John Horne Burns (1880-1971) was a prolific and popular American writer. He is best known for his novels, which include such classic titles as "The Hostage", "The Resurrection of Martin Chuzzlewit", "Merton of the Movies", and "Pilgrim's Progress". His short stories have been collected in many anthologies, including "Wee Willie Winkie" and "The Black Sheep of the Family". His portrait by Charles Wysocki is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.

She saw why teachers get very old and stay very...
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She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis. John Horne Burns
He knew instinctively the cardinal function of a teacher —...
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He knew instinctively the cardinal function of a teacher — which is a stout lever to raw mass. John Horne Burns
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They were our enemies. Yet in those young men of Italy I'd seen something centuries old. An American is only as old as his years. A long line of something was hidden behind the bright eyes of those Italians. And then and there I decided to learn something of the modern world. There was something abroad which we Americans couldn't or wouldn't understand. But unless we made some attempt to realize that everyone in the world isn't American, and that not everything American is good, we'll all perish together, and in this twentieth century.. . John Horne Burns