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

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

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"For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker."

Gregg Easterbrook, American Author

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"To silence criticism is to silence freedom."

Sidney Hook, American Philosopher

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"Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films."

Paul Schrader, American Director

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"As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair so an unsuccessful author turns critic."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings."

Octavio Paz, Mexican Poet

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"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."

Daniel Okrent, American Editor

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"I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

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"Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly."

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"A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day."

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"Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been."

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"Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt."

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"Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla."

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"The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face."

Future

"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."

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"Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future."

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"The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story."

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