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"The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious"
Lester Bangs, Critic
"Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything"
Chuck Klosterman, Critic
"The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire"
Pamela Hansford Johnson, Critic
"Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice"
Henry Louis Gates, Critic
"No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane"
Robert M. Parker, Jr., Critic
"The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains"
Ernest Hello, Critic
"Postmodernism is, among other things, a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism"
Terry Eagleton, Critic
"The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself"
James Wolcott, Critic
"It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be"
Vincent Canby, Critic
"Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris"
Thomas Gold Appleton, Critic
"Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day"
Richard Roeper, Critic
"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital"
George Steiner, Critic
"Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire"
George Edward Woodberry, Critic
"Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit"
Carl Clinton Van Doren, Critic
"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"Reflection makes men cowards"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself, too, if he could"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"No truly great person ever thought themselves so"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"Learning is its own exceeding great reward"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"Great thoughts, reduced to practice, become great acts"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity"
William Hazlitt, Critic
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