Alan Barth Quotes, Criticism Quotes, Delusion Quotes

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

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It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.

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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

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But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.

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Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

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A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

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He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

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Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

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Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

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O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

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