"While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater."

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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

Criticism, Love, Perception

"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Criticism, Democracy, Variety

"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."

Daniel Okrent, American Editor

Criticism, Ridicule

"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

Criticism, Media, Truth, Malice, Proof

"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

Jim Bishop, American Journalist

Criticism, Writer

"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Criticism, Observation, World, Worth

"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."

Henry Miller, American Author

Criticism, America, Disaster, Night, World

"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

Criticism, Poetry, Quality, Humor

"We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Criticism, Evangelism, Force, Culture, Critique

"Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me."

Paul Farmer, American Educator

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"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."

"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."

"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."

"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."

"Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell."

"We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease."

"Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me."

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"I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people."

"Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality."

"Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did."

"The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford."

"I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes."

"No, I try not to be a negative thinker."

"I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile."

"Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful."

"But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time."

"While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater."