"Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest."

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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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"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

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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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"The most destructive criticism is indifference."

Edgar Watson Howe, American Editor

Criticism, Indifference

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

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Criticism, Boldness, Sensitivity, People

"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

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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."

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"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."

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