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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Iris Murdoch
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A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
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Channing Pollock
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A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
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Kenneth Tynan
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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Friedrich Schlegel
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A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
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Wilson Mizner
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A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
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Bern Williams
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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
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Dustin Hoffman
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
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William Shenstone
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A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
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Lord Byron
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22 votes
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Jean Baudrillard
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60 votes
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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James Russell Lowell
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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
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James Russell Lowell
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20 votes
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
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Ted Turner
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All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.
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Source Unknown
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All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
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Gregory Nunn
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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Rebecca West
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Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
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Sam Rayburn
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As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
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Clive James
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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
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Hans Selye
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Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
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Bible
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23 votes
Blame is safer than praise.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
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Federico Mayor
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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E. M. Cioran
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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
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Dr. Emmit Fox
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17 votes
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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H. L. Mencken
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10 votes
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
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W. H. Auden
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31 votes
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
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Samuel Johnson
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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
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Joseph Conrad
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37 votes
Critics are already made.
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Lord Byron
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Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Robert Burns
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45 votes
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Alexander Pope
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
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Chinese Proverb
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
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Channing Pollock
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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
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German Proverb
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For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
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Source Unknown
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
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John Steinbeck
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7 votes
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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Fran Lebowitz
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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
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Claude A. Helvetius
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24 votes
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat
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Source Unknown
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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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43 votes
He who throws dirt always loses ground.
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Source Unknown
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16 votes
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
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Henry Miller
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I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
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Sydney Smith
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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Victor Hugo
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Epictetus
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52 votes
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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Lou Holtz
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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
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Napoleon Hill
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