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Quotes by Critic

"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."

"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Admiration, Contempt, Familiarity, May

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"The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind."

"The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind."

Max Nordau, Hungarian Critic

Creativity, Idea, Artist, Burden, Feeling

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"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."

"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."

Alphonse Karr, French Critic

4

"So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones."

"So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones."

Fredric Jameson, American Critic

Being, Globalization

4

"Sublimity is the echo of great mind."

"Sublimity is the echo of great mind."

Longinus, Greek Critic

4

"It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art."

"It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art."

Pauline Kael, American Critic

Art, Artists, Patience

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"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."

"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."

Louis Kronenberger, American Critic

Age, Time, Goal, Old

4

"IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction."

"IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction."

Carl Clinton Van Doren, American Critic

Life, Power, Sympathy

4

"Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it."

"Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it."

Andrea Dworkin, American Critic

4

"In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us."

"In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us."

Joe Bob Briggs, American Critic

Urbanization, Words

4

"I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley."

"I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley."

Leslie Fiedler, American Critic

Work, People, Experts

4

"I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression."

"I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression."

Margaret Fuller, American Critic

Emotional, Feeling

4

"By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested."

"By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested."

Roger Ebert, American Critic

Friendship, Movies, College, Friends, Open

4

"Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?"

"Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?"

George Edward Woodberry, American Critic

Life, Art, Music, Voice

4

"Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress."

"Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Dress, Value, Will

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"I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so."

"I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so."

Timothy White, American Critic

4

"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."

"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."

Lionel Trilling, American Critic

Writing, Forget, May, Weather

4

"A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is."

"A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is."

Pauline Kael, American Critic

Mistake, Anxiety, Judgment

4

"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so."

"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so."

Andrea Dworkin, American Critic

Family, Mother, Earth, Forbidden, Humanity

4

"In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods."

"In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods."

Stephen Bayley, British Critic

Age, Experience, Church, Choice

4

"I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively."

"I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively."

Robert M. Parker, Jr., American Critic

Worth, Robert M. Parker

4

"So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent."

"So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent."

Robert McChesney, American Critic

Government, People, Name, Result

4

"Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them."

"Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them."

Leonard Maltin, American Critic

Entertainment, States, United

4

"And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country."

"And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country."

Robert McChesney, American Critic

Change, Country

4

"The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic."

"The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic."

Kenneth Tynan, English Critic

Writing, Complexity, Effort, Play

4

"Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles."

"Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles."

E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Critic

4

"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination."

"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination."

Andrea Dworkin, American Critic

Conviction, Discrimination, Genocide

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"It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor."

"It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor."

Margaret Fuller, American Critic

4

"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings."

"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Concern, Destruction, Pain

4

"There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions."

"There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions."

Ernest Hello, French Critic

4

"Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health."

"Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health."

Robert M. Parker, Jr., American Critic

Health, Robert M. Parker

4

"Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K."

"Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K."

Stanley Crouch, American Critic

Cultural, Culture, Obsession, Popular

4

"There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness."

"There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness."

George Steiner, American Critic

Cultural, Culture, Wrong

4

"The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization."

"The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization."

Fredric Jameson, American Critic

Food, Music, Heart

4

"The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature."

"The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature."

Paul de Man, Belgian Critic

Nature, Act, Writing

4

"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media."

"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

Work, People, Care, Media

4

"That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact."

"That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact."

Walter Pater, English Critic

Life, Poetry, Fact, Sense

4

"Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life."

"Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life."

Charles Lamb, English Critic

4

"As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in."

"As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in."

Andrea Dworkin, American Critic

Equality, Peace, Freedom, Justice

4

"The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority."

"The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority."

John T. Flynn, American Critic

Politics, America, Authority, Trade

4

"Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength."

"Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength."

Charles Lamb, English Critic

Strength, Credulity, Man, Weakness

4

"The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers."

"The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers."

Carl Clinton Van Doren, American Critic

Work, Fiction, Followers, Land

4

"The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution."

"The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution."

John T. Flynn, American Critic

Cause, Revolution, Key, Order

4

"I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way."

"I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way."

Steven Cojocaru, Canadian Critic

4

"Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process."

"Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process."

Leonard Maltin, American Critic

Money, End, Hollywood

4

"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant."

"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant."

John Simon, American Critic

Democracy, Majority

4

"I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour."

"I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour."

Georg Brandes, Danish Critic

4

"When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition."

"When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition."

Robert McChesney, American Critic

Government, Chicago, Competition, Rights

4

"Reflection makes men cowards."

"Reflection makes men cowards."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Man, Men, Cowards, Reflection

4

"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."

"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."

Walter Benjamin, German Critic

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