"A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant."

Mizner, Wilson on criticism   

"Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire."

Miller, Henry on criticism
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"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."

Mencken, H. L. on criticism   

"It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men."

Mencken, H. L. on criticism   

"In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."

Kael, Pauline on criticism   

"As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks."

James, Clive on criticism   

"A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution."

Hoffman, Dustin on criticism   

"Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!"

Flagg, Fannie on criticism
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"To die will be an awfully big adventure."

Barrie, Sir James M. on death
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"On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down."

Allen, Woody on death   

"A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole."

Zappa, Frank on drugs
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"Divorce is a game played by lawyers."

Grant, Cary on divorce   

"A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100, 000 short."

Rooney, Mickey on divorce   

"Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially."

Stallone, Sylvester on divorce   

"From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first."

Brecht, Bertolt on dress   

"Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you."

Malkovich, John on dress   

"Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?"

Parker, Dorothy on dress   

"You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins."

West, Mae on dress
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"I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot."

Allen, Woody on drugs
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"Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?"

Garcia, Jerry on drugs   

"If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing."

Holiday, Billie on drugs
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"Of course drugs were fun."

Huston, Anjelica on drugs   

"The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?"

Lennon, John on drugs
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"The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it."

Lennon, John on drugs
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"Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?"

O'Rourke, P. J. on drugs
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"Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is."

Reagan, Ronald on drugs   

"I tried to give up drugs by drinking."

Reed, Lou on drugs
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"Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money."

Williams, Robin on drugs
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"Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5, 000 Gideon Bibles."

Gabor, Zsa Zsa on divorce   

"You never really know a man until you have divorced him."

Gabor, Zsa Zsa on divorce
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"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do."

Gabor, Zsa Zsa on divorce   

"The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living."

Guthrie, Arlo on death
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"A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go."

Duffecy, James on death
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"When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin."

Donleavy, J. P. on death   

"I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead."

Buffett, Jimmy on death
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"Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must."

Beckett, Samuel on death   

"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him."

Barrymore, John on death
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"The best place a person can die, is where they die for others."

Barrie, Sir James M. on death
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"I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below."

Bardot, Brigitte on death   

"Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain."

Hazlitt, William on death