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"I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan."
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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?"
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"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."
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"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."
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"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."
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"Plenty of people will think you're crazy, no matter what you do. Don't let that stop you from finding the people who think you're incredible-the ones who need to hear your voice, because it reminds them of their own. Your tribe. They're out there. Don't let your critics interfere with your search for them."
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"And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator who ever wrote or will write either a political or other work, in meter or out of meter, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?' What is good, PhASdrus, and what is not good...need we ask anyone to tell us these things?"
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"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."
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"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."
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"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."
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"Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
Being
"Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind."
Idea
"In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's."
Politics
"One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god."
God
"A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it."
Power
"One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it."
Credit
"There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost."
Truth
"Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become."
Man
"When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic."
Science
"Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it."
Truth
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