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

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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

Criticism, Science, Religion, Nationalism, Patriotism

"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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"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 planet is littered with irresponsible gods."

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"We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers."

Marguerite Gardiner, Irish Writer

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"Introspection precedes constructive criticism.Introspeksi mendahului kritik yang membangun."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."

Walter Hill, American Director

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"Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within."

Edmund Husserl, German Philosopher

Criticism, Now, Understanding

"Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"He was not only a bore; he bored for England."

Malcolm Muggeridge, British Journalist

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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."

"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."

"The planet is littered with irresponsible gods."

"We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers."

"Introspection precedes constructive criticism.Introspeksi mendahului kritik yang membangun."

"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."

"Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within."

"Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism."

"He was not only a bore; he bored for England."

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"First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too."

"How many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To mould a pin or fabricate a nail!"