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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie
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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. -Emmet Fox
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Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Elvis Presley
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, 'I wanna grow up and be a critic.' -Richard Pryor
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If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

Mariah Carey
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

H. L. Mencken
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Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. -Zeuxis
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One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Robert Hughes
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Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

Paul A. Samuelson
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I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful. -Shania Twain
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Edith Wharton
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones
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We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause. -Jose Narosky
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

W. Somerset Maugham
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To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and ninety percent gall and egomania in equal parts.

Judith Crist
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. -Kurt Vonnegut
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Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!

Jean Sibelius
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One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

W. H. Auden
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Never criticize your spouse's faults; if it weren't for them, your mate might have found someone better than you. -Jay Trachman
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To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Harold Rosenberg
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. -Eleanor Roosevelt
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Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

Native American Proverb
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Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Henry Fielding
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The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not. -Edward Albee
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Emile M. Cioran
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The most destructive criticism is indifference.

Edgar Watson Howe
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -Katharine Hepburn
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