"There's a fine line between participation and mockery."

Adams, Scott on Critics and Criticism
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"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."

Addison, Joseph on Critics and Criticism
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"Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture."

Adorno, Theodor W. on Critics and Criticism
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"Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else."

Aikman, Leo on Critics and Criticism
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"The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D."

Algren, Nelson on Critics and Criticism
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"The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid."

Auden, W. H. on Critics and Criticism
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"Criticism should be a casual conversation."

Auden, W. H. on Critics and Criticism
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"I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena."

Barkley, Charles on Critics and Criticism
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"To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons."

Baudelaire, Charles on Critics and Criticism
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"It is from the womb of art that criticism was born."

Baudelaire, Charles on Critics and Criticism
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"A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy."

Baudrillard, Jean on Critics and Criticism
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Critics and Criticism
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"The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion."

Benjamin, Walter on Critics and Criticism
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"Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present."

Berger, John on Critics and Criticism
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"Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath."

Bible on Critics and Criticism
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"The covers of this book are too far apart."

Bierce, Ambrose on Critics and Criticism
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"A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

Bishop, Jim on Critics and Criticism
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"Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea."

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"Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself."

Bruyere, Jean De La on Critics and Criticism
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"Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame."

Burns, Robert on Critics and Criticism
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"Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention."

Burroughs, William S. on Critics and Criticism
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"The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon."

Buxton, Charles on Critics and Criticism
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"Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred."

Buxton, Charles on Critics and Criticism
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"A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made."

Byron, Lord on Critics and Criticism
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"Critics are already made."

Byron, Lord on Critics and Criticism
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"No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people."

Carlyle, Thomas on Critics and Criticism
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"Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career."

Carnegie, Dale on Critics and Criticism
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"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done."

Carnegie, Dale on Critics and Criticism
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"In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay."

Carruthers, Charles Edwin on Critics and Criticism
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"I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored."

Cartwright, Bill on Critics and Criticism
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"It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all."

Chandler, Raymond on Critics and Criticism
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"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."

Chandler, Raymond on Critics and Criticism
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"Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic."

Chandler, Raymond on Critics and Criticism
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"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."

Churchill, Charles on Critics and Criticism
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"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."

Churchill, Winston on Critics and Criticism
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"They condemn what they do not understand."

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"He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Critics and Criticism
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"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."

Cioran, E. M. on Critics and Criticism
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"Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing."

Clurman, Harold on Critics and Criticism
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"What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you."

Cocteau, Jean on Critics and Criticism
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