"We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects."

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"We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects."

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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."

Henry Miller, American Author

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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."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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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

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"One of the main reasons and excuses behind every religious failure is a FALSE PROMISE."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"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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"People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"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."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Criticism, Religion, Power, History, Truth

"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."

Henry James, American Writer

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"At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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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."

"One of the main reasons and excuses behind every religious failure is a FALSE PROMISE."

"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."

"People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize."

"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."

"At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you."

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"Rules and models destroy genius and art."

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"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."

"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."

"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect."

"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."

"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings."

"No young man ever thinks he shall die."

"Learning is its own exceeding great reward."