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Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake.


Roger Mahony


#critical #heritage #history #immigrants #nation

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.


W. Somerset Maugham


#creative #critical #exist #faculty #highest

I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.


Jack Nicholson


#care #criticism #i #i do #like

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.


Dennis Potter


#because #critics #end #fiction #i

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.


Mark Twain


#criticism #jerk #reading #writing #want

Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.


Ernest Mandel


#critical #marxism #open #self-critical

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.


William James


#cold #criticisms #crushed #dry #due

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?


Joyce Maynard


#dared #hear #i #i wonder #me

In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.


Richard McCabe


#came #career #choice #could #critics

Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody!


Joshua Jackson


#criticizes #ducks #gets #mighty #nobody






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