"It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism."

Criticism, Art, Truth, Creativity

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"It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism."

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"Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewer's dislike of the kind to which it belongs. Let bad tragedies be censured by those who love tragedy, and bad detective stories by those who love the detective story. Then we shall learn their real faults. Otherwise we shall find epics blamed for not being novels, farces for not being high comedies, novels by James for lacking the swift action of Smollett. Who wants to hear a particular claret abused by a fanatical teetotaller, or a particular woman by a confirmed misogynist?"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Criticism, Love, Perception

"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Criticism, Democracy, Variety

"The planet is littered with irresponsible gods."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

Criticism, Environment, Blame, Existence

"The Mullahs and monks, they must worship you instead of empty rooms."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Criticism, Worship, Religion, Emptiness, Belief

"What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Criticism, Insight, Intelligence, Critique, Perspective

"You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters."

Peyton Manning, American Athlete

Criticism, First

"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."

Daniel Okrent, American Editor

Criticism, Ridicule

"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Criticism, Inaction, Nothing, Silence

"Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

Criticism, May, Publicity

"He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public-an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Criticism, Media, Truth, Malice, Proof

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"I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives."

Humanity

"What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."

Gender

"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."

Perception

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

Desire

"This woman lawyer said the best men wanted to be pure for their wives, and even if they weren't pure, they wanted to be the ones to teach their wives about sex. Of course they would try to persuade a girl to have sex and say they would marry her later, but assoon as she gave in, they would lose all respect for her and start saying that if she did that with them she would do that with other men and they would end up by making her lifemiserable."

Relationship

"When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind of religion, and necessary for me...as the confession and absolution for a Catholic in church."

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"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."

"The planet is littered with irresponsible gods."

"The Mullahs and monks, they must worship you instead of empty rooms."

"What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant."

"You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters."

"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."

"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

"Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive."

Explore more quotes by Sylvia Plath

"I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives."

"What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."

"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."

"Talking about my fears to others feeds it."

"Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse."

"I must get my soul back from you, I am killing my flesh without it."

"It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther."

"When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind of religion, and necessary for me...as the confession and absolution for a Catholic in church."