There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.

~ Joyce Rachelle

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Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

~ Criss Jami

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To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

~ Criss Jami

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The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one can do.

~ Criss Jami

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The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.

~ Criss Jami

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Don’t deceive yourself; laughing at someone’s weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

~ Criss Jami

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The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

~ Sara Sheridan

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He who don't understand the real essence of critics and oppositions in the journey of life criticizes and opposes himself, knowingly or unknowingly, in his journey of life.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.

~ David Nicholls

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I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

~ Leonard Bernstein

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Critique by creating.

~ Michelangelo Buonarroti

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When did most of us stop being poets?

~ Michael St. George

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We knock upon silence for an answering music.

~ Archibald Macleish

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If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

~ Edith Hamilton

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One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

~ Criss Jami

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Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even ahead of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.

~ Lester Bangs

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Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.

~ Bruce Sterling

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Don't judge yourself by your past, you no longer live there.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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To point out nonepistemic motives in another’s view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt upon a person’s connection to the world as it is.

~ Sam Harris

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...it's exemplification of our moment in American culture and American cultural journalism. It is an accurate document of the discourse of takes. This movie, that book, this poem, that painting, this record, that show: Make a smart remark and move on. A take is an opinion that has no aspiration to a belief, an impression taht never hardens into a position. Its lightness is its appeal. It is provisional, evanescent, a move in a game, an accredited shallowness, a bulwark against a pause in the conversation. A take is expected not to be true but to be interesting, and even when it is interesting it makes no troublesome claim upon anybody's attention. Another take will quickly follow, and the silence that is a mark of perplexity, of research and reflection, will be mercifully kept at bay. A take asks for no affiliation. It requires no commitment.

~ Leon Wieseltier

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Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.

~ Bart D. Ehrman

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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.

~ John Steinbeck

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Thence it is possible to arrive by easy stages at the happy notion, not uncommon among 'intellectuals', that taste consists of distaste, and that the loftiest of pleasures is that of feeling displeased; and thus to end by enjoying almost nothing in literature but one's own opinions, while oneself incapable of writing a living sentence.

~ F.l. Lucas

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The literary text seems like a fortified medieval town –foreigners and outsiders are repelled, or allowed in only after rigorous checks, but within all is bustling life; exchange, mutual interdependence and influence are the rule.

~ Jeremy Hawthorn

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The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

~ Mark Twain

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A Christian message or moral cannot redeem a text marred by shoddy workmanship.

~ Susan Gallagher

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The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're decoding

~ Maureen Corrigan

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Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which, for each one of us, experience dwindles down, are in perpetual flight; that each of them is limited by time, and that as time is infinitely divisible, each of them is infinitely divisible also; all that is actual in it being a single moment, gone while we try to apprehend it, of which it may ever be more truly said that it has ceased to be than that it is. To such a tremulous wisp constantly reforming itself on the stream, to a single sharp impression, with a sense in it, a relic more or less fleeting, of such moments gone by, what is real in our life fines itself down.

~ Walter Pater

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things.    To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.      The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

~ Oscar Wilde

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The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.)

~ C.s. Lewis

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If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

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There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. D.H. Lawrence had known that. You needed love, but not the kind of love most people used and were used up by. Old D.H. had known something. His buddy Huxley was just an intellectual fidget, but what a marvelous one. Better than G.B. Shaw with that hard keel of a mind always scraping bottom, his labored wit finally only a task, a burden on himself, preventing him from really feeling anything, his brilliant speech finally a bore, scraping the mind and the sensibilities. It was good to read them all though. It made you realize that thoughts and words could be fascinating, if finally useless.

~ Charles Bukowski

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The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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When we criticize the suicidal for being selfish, we are actually criticizing them for not enduring their pain with grace and good manners. These are nice qualities; we may be correct to reproach average citizens for not having them. But to expect everyone in pain to have them is unrealistic. Bearing pain quietly is what moralists call a supererogatory act--an act that is above the call of duty. Expecting everyone to who is suicidal to behave in a way that is morally above average is simply abusive.

~ David L. Conroy

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There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

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As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things.

~ Criss Jami

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