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Criticism

The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

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People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

DiCaprio, Leonardo

God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.

Hemingway, Ernest

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

Holtz, Lou

The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.

Auden, W. H.

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

Klee, Paul

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

Auden, W. H.

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

Ziglar, Zig

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Churchill, Charles

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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.

James, Clive

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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

Smith, Sydney

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Blame is safer than praise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

Wilde, Oscar

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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Collins, Jackie

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One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

W. H. Auden

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Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

James, Henry

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Updike, John

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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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All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

Nunn, Gregory

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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own experience -- more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Sontag, Susan

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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

Man, Paul De

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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.

Mascotte, John P.

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The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.

Little, Lynn M.

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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Paz, Octavio

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A louse in the locks of literature.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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.

James, Henry

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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world -- though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -- the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

Sterne, Laurence

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Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

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

Elbert Hubbard

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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

Hoffman, Dustin

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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

West, Rebecca

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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.

Walker, Alice

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If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Simms, William Gilmore

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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

Eliot, T. S.

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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Simms, William Gilmore

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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.