Jack KerouacIf critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.
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If someone says that your work stinks then they are just trying to discourage you from continuing on, that is all they are doing. They say that your work stinks because they don't want you to get better and more successful. If they say it enough, eventually you will stop trying and give up.
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