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• There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

  Susie Bright

  Christian, Distance, Motherhood

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• I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Doe, Letters, Critics

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.293, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

  Ethan Coen

  Book, Reading, Cutting

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• There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

  Anne Stevenson

  Too Much, Kind, Academic

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• The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.

  H. L. Mencken

  Passion, Artist, Creative

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

  Steve Ballmer

  Strong, Thinking, Talking

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• Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

  Agnes Repplier

  Joy, Next

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

  Wim Wenders

  Real, Past, Quality

  "Wim Wenders talks with WSWS: 'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

  Wim Wenders

  One Day, Entertainment, Directors

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Writing, Would Be, Benefits

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection”, p.82, 谷月社

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• The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

  Bjork

  Country, People, Comedy

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• David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet

  Isabella Rossellini

  Girl, Sorry, Blue

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• I believe in criticism.

  Paul Anka

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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• The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Powerful, Writing

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

  Renny Harlin

  Giving Up, Healthy, Challenges

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

  Karl Popper

  Myth

  In C. A. Mace (ed.) 'British Philosophy in the Mid-Century' 'The Philosophy of Science'

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• Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

  Laurence Sterne

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Literature

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 3, ch. 12

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• Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

  George Jean Nathan

  Art, Darkness, Unseen

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The Critic and the Drama”, p.4, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

  Henry Fielding

  Reality, Men, World

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• Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

  Tacitus

  Abuse, Irritated, Critics

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• The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Editors, Literature

  "Life as I Find it".

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• Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

  Emmet Fox

  Self, Indirect, Form

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• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

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• Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Children, Kids, Parenting

  "Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values". Book by Dorothy Nolte and Rachel Harris, January 5, 1998.

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• I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.

  Johnny Depp

  Country, Freedom, Grateful

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