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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

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If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

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Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.

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It's useful for activists just to be out there to keep you mindful and not get complacent, even if ultimately you think some of their criticism is misguided.

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One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

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Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

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A louse in the locks of literature.

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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

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A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

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Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

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When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

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If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

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

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