"Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!"
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"It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism."
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"Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire."
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"Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit."
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"Valid criticism does you a favor."
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"Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism."
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"Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment."
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"[Barack Obama] is aware of the criticism back home [from Cuba] that this embargo still exists."
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"I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism."
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"In publishing The First Man I said to myself, 'this is going to be awful,' but awful from the point of view of the criticism. I'm not afraid of [Albert] Camus' public. I'm afraid of what will be written in the papers."
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"We, the Greens, should thank our former foreign minister Joschka Fischer for bringing something hideous and shameful to light - that Nazi ideas were fully adopted by white-collar workers in the Foreign Ministry. Joschka Fischer stood up to criticism that he would foul his own nest, and with his order to start the historical commission he made it clear that the ministry's pride in itself, as a haven of resistance to Hitler, was no longer acceptable."
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"Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done."
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"[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!"
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"Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open."
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"All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business."
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"The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision."
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"The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature."
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"The naysayers, they don't mean a thing."
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"If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book...it has sort of it's own narrative that one could analyze and write literary criticism about."
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"Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism."
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