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Critics Quotes

"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."

"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."

Gerald Brenan, English Writer

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"Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness."

"Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness."

Breyten Breytenbach, South African Writer

Critics, America, Enemy, Nothing, Present

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"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise."

"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise."

Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet

Critics, Effect

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"The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious."

"The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Critics, Unconscious

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"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."

"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."

Catherine Drinker Bowen, American Writer

Critics, Arrogance

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"You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet."

"You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet."

Theophile Gautier, French Poet

Critics, Satisfaction

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