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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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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.
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
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Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
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Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
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For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.
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Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
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Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the best American higher criticism.
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Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
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I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
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I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
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