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

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"Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on."

Ann Patchett, American Author

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"Critical feedback shared in good faith is inherently a constructive dialogue. A "critique, a term that is both a noun and a verb, represents the systematical application of critical thought, a disciplined method of analysis, expressing of opinions, and rendering judgments."

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"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Praise to the undeserving is severe satire."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

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"Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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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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"Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist."

Harold Bloom, American Critic

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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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"Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that ."

Diana Ross, American Actress

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"Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on."

"Critical feedback shared in good faith is inherently a constructive dialogue. A "critique, a term that is both a noun and a verb, represents the systematical application of critical thought, a disciplined method of analysis, expressing of opinions, and rendering judgments."

"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."

"Praise to the undeserving is severe satire."

"Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end."

"Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth."

"I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist."

"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."

"Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that ."

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"It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh."

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"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."

"Surely the glory of journalism is its transience."

"The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth."

"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."