#critic

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet rife with suffering and tragedy, the spectacle of a clown civilization. Sustained on a clown diet rich in sugar and fat, we have developed a clown physiognomy. We dress like clowns. We move about a landscape filled with cartoon buildings in clownmobiles, absorbed in clownish activities. We fill our idle hours enjoying the canned antics of professional clowns... Death, when we acknowledge it, is just another pratfall on the boob tube. Bang! You're dead! ↗

— James Howard Kunstler

#clown #clowns #community #social-criticism #the-united-states

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#criticism #employment #first #guide #itself

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. ↗

— Walt Disney

#critics #entertain #i #public #take

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. ↗

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

#criticism #kind #tells #thing #which

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#criticism #freedom #greatest #greatest threat #threat

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic. ↗

— Jean Sibelius

#been #critic #critics #ever #pay

Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do! ↗

— Ian Smith

#accusing #against #criticized #did #everything

From now on, any flick I'm ever involved with, I conduct critics screenings thusly: 'You wanna see it early to review it? Fine: pay like you would if you saw it next week.' ↗

— Kevin Smith

#conduct #critics #early #ever #fine

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought. ↗

— Margaret Chase Smith

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