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"Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."
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"Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments."
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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
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"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"
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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."
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"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."
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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."
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"The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit."
Criticism
"Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?"
Future
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
Friendship
"Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite."
Criticism
"Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October."
Books
"In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold."
Reflection
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