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Criticism

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.

Costello, Elvis

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.

Proverb, Chinese

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

France, Anatole

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Selye, Hans

Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

Mayor, Federico

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Fox, Dr. Emmit

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

James, Clive

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

Flagg, Fannie

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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

Hugo, Victor

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In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Fielding, Henry

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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

Aragon, Louis

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It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

Mencken, H. L.

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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

Congreve, William

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If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

Fiedler, Leslie

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We have been educated to such a fine -- or dull -- point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

Miller, Henry

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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Lowell, James Russell

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Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.

Clurman, Harold

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It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

Kundera, Milan

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Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

Bible

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The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Fiedler, Leslie

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Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same burden, have the same trials as he, before I say one word to criticize.

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People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

Pound, Ezra

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Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.

Pollock, Channing

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of meanings.

Sontag, Susan

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There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Ziglar, Zig

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One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

Wilde, Oscar

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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When the critics come around it's always too late.

Nolan, Sir Sidney

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The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.

Paglia, Camille

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In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.

Hutton, R. H.

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The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

Algren, Nelson

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When subjected to the rain of criticism, let?s not curse the rain. Let?s accept it as a part of life. Let?s remember that the more criticism we can successfully handle, the more zest we will experience in our lives.

Sinha, Shall

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Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

Mcclung, Nellie

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To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

Orwell, George

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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

Wilde, Oscar

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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Epictetus

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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

H. L. Mencken

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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Cocteau, Jean

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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Kurt Vonnegut