"I like criticism, but it must be my way."
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"You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism."
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"The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today."
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"I think that criticism is unjustified. It's a cute term, but noone shouldn't be criticized for who he is."
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"Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical."
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"Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it."
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"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."
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"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself."
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"If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any."
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"That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken."
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"I think the president's [Barack Obama] position has been very clear on Syria. He wants more aggressive, he's put the Special Ops on the ground, in fact one of the Republican criticisms is he's got thousands of Americans there. We just don't call them troops on the ground, we don't admit to it. But they are there."
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"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place."
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"Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?"
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"We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns."
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"Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity."
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"Time has nothing to do with the matter."
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"One can be well-bred and write bad poetry"
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"Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good."
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