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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Critics and Criticism
Henry Miller

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A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Critics and Criticism
Wilson Mizner

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Upright whether in prosperous or in critical circumstances.
Circumstance
Motto

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We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Critics and Criticism
Jose Narosky

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When the critics come around it's always too late.
Critics and Criticism
Sir Sidney Nolan

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All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Critics and Criticism
Gregory Nunn

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The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
Family
Sandra Day O'connor

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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Critics and Criticism
Octavio Paz

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Arts and Artists
Octavio Paz

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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Praise
Norman Vincent Peale

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A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Critics and Criticism
Channing Pollock

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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Critics and Criticism
Alexander Pope

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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
Nationalities and Nationalism
V. S. Pritchett

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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
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Sam Rayburn

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Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Critics and Criticism
Eleanor Roosevelt

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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Critics and Criticism
Jean Rostand

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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Critics and Criticism
Friedrich Schlegel

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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Writers and Writing
Irwin Shaw

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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Critics and Criticism
William Gilmore Simms

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Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope

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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Critics and Criticism
John Steinbeck

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Time is the only critic without ambition.
Time and Time Management
John Steinbeck

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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
Critics and Criticism
Mark Twain

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A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Critics and Criticism
Kenneth Tynan

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Arts and Artists
Kenneth Tynan

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun