"Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me."

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"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."

Henry Miller, American Author

Criticism, America, Chance, Old

"I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Criticism, Praise, Authors, Creativity

"There is no such thing as constructive criticism. There is constructive advice, constructive guidance, constructive counsel, encouragement, suggestion, and instruction. Criticism, however, is not constructive but a destructive means of faultfinding that cripples all parties involved. Don't be fooled into thinking otherwise."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Criticism, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Inspirational

"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Criticism, Defense, Obscurity

"Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Criticism, Wisdom, Truth, Inspirational, Regret

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Criticism, Cynic, Flowers, Man

"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

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"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Criticism, Prejudice

"Some who have read the book, or at any rate reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no reason to complain, since I have similar opinions of their work, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."

"I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so."

"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."

"Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments."

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"

"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."

"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."

"Some who have read the book, or at any rate reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no reason to complain, since I have similar opinions of their work, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer."

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"What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect."

"Art is my life and my life is art."

"I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting."

"We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children."

"Life with another person is always difficult."

"Artists are going to be the metronome of this society."

"Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited."

"Healing yourself is connected with healing others."

"If your life changes, we can change the world, too."

"My life was pretty rough."