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"He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals."
"Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell."
"Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments."
"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?"
"People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize."
"Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse."
"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."
Explore more quotes by S. A. Tawks
"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."
"There has to be at least one other reason besides money that makes you do the things that you do."
"Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them."
"Your choice is your choice and you need to accept what happens, not shift the blame to someone else if it doesn't turn out your way."
"People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough."
"The old author knew all too well that the imagination was a top cause for missing good meals."
"This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?"
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