#critic

Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, or rather he had tried to plagiarize them without much success, which led him, after long reflection (a whole summer night), to the astute decision that he should write in the manner of Odoevsky and Lazhechnikov. Fifty percent Odoevsky and fifty percent Lazhecknikov. This went over well, in part because readers, their memories mostly faulty, had forgotten poor Odoevsky (1803-1869) and poor Lazhechnikov (1792-1869), who died the same year, and in part because literary criticism, as keen as ever, neither extrapolated nor made the connection nor noticed a thing. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#literary-criticism

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#critical mass #idea #induce #mass #presence

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#critic #difficult #screen #see #up

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation. ↗

— Robert Baldwin Ross

#attention #conversation #critic #even #i

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East. ↗

— Richard Armitage

#critical #east #flexibility #foreign #foreign policy

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#critics #might #our #popularity #some

The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#change #climate #climate change #critical #critical role

I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness. ↗

— Jack Osbourne

#criticizing #getting #i #illness #like

Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old. ↗

— Guy Oseary

#ageism #album #applaud #bless #both

Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit. ↗

— Richard Owen

#critical #degrees #had #him #his