#critic

Above all, for his merciless, contemptuous treatment of Clifford Chatterley, blown to bits in Flanders in 1918, Lawrence can be damned to hell. Damned but not banned. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#literary-criticism

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

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

Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#course #critically #depends #examples #experience

Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win. ↗

— John Baldacci

#critics #just #maine #proved #red

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 believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago. ↗

— Bo Gritz

#aided #believe #certain #congress #could