Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
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Robert A. Heinlein
I started this dirty quote business when I noticed that I only tend to read authors when their quotes convince me of wit and style. In a world overflowing with bad literature and corrupted product-placement critics the only weapon one has is either word of...
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Martijn Benders
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting...
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Stephen King
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.", October 31, 1977]
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John Osborne
Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.
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Jeffrey Robinson
More Quotes By Pierre Beaumarchais
Calumniate calumniate there will always be something which sticks.
Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.
I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep.
The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time.
Nature says to a woman: 'Be beautiful if you can wise if you want to but be respected that is essential.'
