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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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"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."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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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

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

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace."

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"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."

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"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."

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"To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults."

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"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."

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"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."

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"History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it."

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"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."

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"Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline."

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