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Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #30 on: October 12, 2016, 08:49:52 PM »
[highlight-text]The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

Samuel Butler
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« Reply #31 on: October 12, 2016, 08:50:35 PM »
[highlight-text]Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton
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« Reply #32 on: October 12, 2016, 08:52:19 PM »
[highlight-text]Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.

James Russell Lowell
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« Reply #33 on: October 12, 2016, 08:53:19 PM »
[highlight-text]I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.

Max Reger
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« Reply #34 on: October 12, 2016, 08:54:35 PM »
[highlight-text]Two and two continue to make four in spite of the whine of the amateur for three or the cry of the critic for five.

James McNeill Whistler
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« Reply #35 on: October 12, 2016, 08:55:37 PM »
[highlight-text]Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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« Reply #36 on: October 12, 2016, 08:57:39 PM »
[highlight-text]It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

George Bernard Shaw
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« Reply #37 on: October 12, 2016, 08:58:47 PM »
[highlight-text]Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done they've seen it done every day but they're unable to do it themselves.

Brendan Behan
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« Reply #38 on: October 12, 2016, 08:59:32 PM »
[highlight-text]If you are willing to take the punishment you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial the battle ugly is another point.

Lillian Hellman
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Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #39 on: October 12, 2016, 09:00:26 PM »
[highlight-text]Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.

Laurence Sterne
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« Reply #40 on: October 12, 2016, 09:01:47 PM »
[highlight-text]What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #41 on: October 12, 2016, 09:02:41 PM »
[highlight-text]Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.

Laurence Sterne
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« Reply #42 on: October 12, 2016, 09:04:07 PM »
[highlight-text]The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights actors and audiences - a figure dreaded and occasionally comic but never welcome never loved.

Robertson Davies
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« Reply #43 on: October 12, 2016, 09:05:18 PM »
[highlight-text]If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.

Alice Duer Miller
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« Reply #44 on: October 12, 2016, 09:06:35 PM »
[highlight-text]More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader and would no more read a book alone if they could help it than have a baby alone.

Randall Jarrell
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