Famous quotes by Critics

"In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked"

Carl Clinton Van Doren, Critic

"I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage"

Robert M. Parker, Jr., Critic

"The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is"

Ernest Hello, Critic

"We are drawn to our television sets each April, the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident"

Vincent Canby, Critic

"Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world"

Vincent Canby, Critic

"My personal philosophy is you can be sure of nothing"

Robert M. Parker, Jr., Critic

"I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively"

Robert M. Parker, Jr., Critic

"I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy"

Robert M. Parker, Jr., Critic

"Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner"

James Wolcott, Critic

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure"

George Edward Woodberry, Critic

"Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing"

Robert M. Parker, Jr., Critic

"It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in"

James Wolcott, Critic

"Sainthood is acceptable only in saints"

Pamela Hansford Johnson, Critic

"These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?"

Robert M. Parker, Jr., Critic

"There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions"

Ernest Hello, Critic

"You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses"

Pamela Hansford Johnson, Critic

"When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"People don't really think other people are the same"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable"

Pamela Hansford Johnson, Critic

"Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional"

Terry Eagleton, Critic

"The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite"

Robert M. Parker, Jr., Critic

"Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health"

Robert M. Parker, Jr., Critic

"Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

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