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Quotes about critics and criticis
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They condemn what they do not understand. (Difranco Ani)
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself. (Difranco Ani)
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. (Difranco Ani)
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing. (Difranco Ani)
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you. (Difranco Ani)
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense. (Difranco Ani)
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic. (Difranco Ani)
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me. (Difranco Ani)
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up. (Difranco Ani)
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters. (Difranco Ani)
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination. (Difranco Ani)
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review. (Difranco Ani)
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. (Difranco Ani)
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art. (Difranco Ani)
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. (Difranco Ani)
We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism. (Difranco Ani)
Blame is safer than praise. (Difranco Ani)
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring. (Difranco Ani)
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit. (Difranco Ani)
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. (Difranco Ani)
In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. (Difranco Ani)
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. (Difranco Ani)
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. (Difranco Ani)
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. (Difranco Ani)
There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood. (Difranco Ani)
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