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James Gould Cozzens

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The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.


— James Gould Cozzens


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The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.


— James Gould Cozzens


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Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.


— James Gould Cozzens


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Bruccoli University of Pittsburgh Press 1981
James Gould Cozzens: A Checklist Compiled by James B. The central figures in his books are primarily professional middle-class white men — assistant district attorney Abner Coates in The Just and the Unjust doctor George Bull in The Last Adam Episcopal priest Ernest Cudlipp in Men and Brethren U. She died on January 30 1978.

Despite initial critical acclaim his popularity came gradually. He is often grouped today with his contemporaries John O'Hara and John P. Cozzens was a critic of modernism and of realism more leftist than his own and he was quoted in a featured article in Time as saying "I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.

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