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"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas"
M. H. Abrams, Critic
"There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world"
Isaac Goldberg, Critic
"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect"
M. H. Abrams, Critic
"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background"
M. H. Abrams, Critic
"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive, and how we think about our perceptions"
M. H. Abrams, Critic
"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable"
M. H. Abrams, Critic
"If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false"
M. H. Abrams, Critic
"We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible"
John T. Flynn, Critic
"The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority"
John T. Flynn, Critic
"But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form"
John T. Flynn, Critic
"At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people"
John T. Flynn, Critic
"There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people"
Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic
"The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists"
Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic
"The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic"
Kenneth Tynan, Critic
"But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality"
John T. Flynn, Critic
"Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"
Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic
"Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood"
Kenneth Tynan, Critic
"Only among people who think no evil can evil monstrously flourish"
Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic
"Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them, they will drop you"
Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic
"We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once"
Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic
"How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!"
Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic
"The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends"
Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic
"Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world"
Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic
"Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist"
Kenneth Tynan, Critic
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car"
Kenneth Tynan, Critic
"I'm a common-sense kind of guy"
Robert M. Parker, Jr., Critic
"Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you"
Pamela Hansford Johnson, Critic
"Immature artists imitate; mature artists steal"
Lionel Trilling, Critic
"Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K"
Stanley Crouch, Critic
"The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence"
Stanley Crouch, Critic
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