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"The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it."
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"But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages."
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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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"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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"I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world."
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"DeadPool reminds me for some other films which are sci-fi, like Selflessness and Mr.Nobody....But the speech is awful it must be fixed!"
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"Act that way and slowly but surely I will fade away. All the dawns and all the twilights will rob me, piece by piece, of myself, and before long my very life will be shaved away completely - and I would end up nothing."
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"Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or at least has held and not yet repudiated) that the end of days and the Second Coming will occur in her lifetime. This completes the already strong case for allowing her to pass the rest of her natural life span as a private citizen."
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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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"Even the slightest criticism of others is an impediment (hindrance) to Absolute Knowledge (Kevalgnan, Absolute Enlightenment). It also hinders Atmagnan (Knowledge of the Self), also hinders Samkit (Self-realization)."
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"Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable."
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"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens."
Literature
"A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy."
Writing
"One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy."
Time
"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war."
Time
"Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor."
Humor
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
Nature
"English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street."
Education
"Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19."
Age
"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind."
People
"To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year."
Christian
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