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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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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

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

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.

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

You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Holtz, Lou

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

Schlegel, Friedrich

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Raphael, Frederic

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

Henry Fielding

Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeling's honest dictates still obeys, and dares, without a precedent, to praise.

Shee, Sir Martin Archer

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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He who throws dirt always loses ground.

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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Little, Lynn M.

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Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.

Aikman, Leo

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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Buxton, Charles

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A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

Gibbon, Edward

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Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

Carnegie, Dale

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In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

Sontag, Susan

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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Miller, Henry

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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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Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

Zeuxis

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A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.

Tynan, Kenneth

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Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

Mayor, Federico

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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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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

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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

Wilde, Oscar

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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Edith Wharton

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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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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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Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

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