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Criticism Quotes
"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."
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"You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do."
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"It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye."
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"Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings."
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"I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue."
"He was not only a bore; he bored for England."
"You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC."
"Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?"
"To silence criticism is to silence freedom."
"If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back."
"Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise."
"We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river."
"It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep."
"The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit."
"Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more."
"For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt."
"Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves."
"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."
"The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it."
"The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic."
"Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down."
"As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism."
"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."
"Criticism always produces negative reactions, but appreciation always creates positive actions."
"I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name."
"For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker."
"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass."
"You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism."
"Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters."
"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."
"To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own."
"The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem."
"It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not."
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