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1205 Critic Quotes

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

Cruel Meaning
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Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.

Hope Premises Accidents Word
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Writing Criticism Fiction Poetry
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As souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven

Souls Cry Awaken Heaven
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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Easy Love People Memory
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Activity Creative Cares Right
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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

Write Shield Hiding Pain
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Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us

Children Creatures Mirrors Human
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Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

Laws Ghosts Country Earth
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In general the churches ... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola: they promoted thirst without quenching it.

Churches Relation God Thirst
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Part of being human is being on the verge of disgrace.

Part Human Verge Disgrace
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The universe is a pointless, self running machine, and we are insignificant by-products, whom death will tuck back into oblivion, with or without holy fanfare.

Universe Machine By-products Death
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That's why we love disaster, Harry sees it, puts us back in touch with guilt and sends us crawling back to God

Love Disaster Guilt God
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There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

Happiness Sacrifices Losses Betrayals
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We are most alive when we're in love.

Alive Love
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All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

Love Betrayal Life Armed
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History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

History Live Memory Decline
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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

Celebrity Mask Eats Face
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Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

Suspect Moment Thief
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Journalism Literature Hurry
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Truth Lips Dying Men
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The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

Part Religion Poetry
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Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.

Wandering Worlds Dead Born
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there
Art Truth Refuge
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Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

Life Getting Being Becoming
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The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Free Thinking Age Common sense
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Sense Creativity Happiness Alive
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How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

Minds Great Secrecy Solitude
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Poetry Beautiful Impressive Mode
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

Lent Youth Age Discontent
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.

Greatness Spiritual Condition
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Gifts Faithfully Practice Knowledge
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
Life Noble Ideas Life
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Culture Best Thought World
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

Fate Chance Control Soul
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Pursuit Perfection Sweetness Light
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They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

Gifts Chance Conquered Fate
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

Business Passion Life Steadily
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Culture Love Perfection Study
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

True Religion Morality Emotion
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

Brave Heart Subtle Head
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

Conduct Life Concern
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

Men Culture Apostles Equality
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

Poetry Idea World Illusion
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

Knowledge Wise man Nature
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Culture Intellectual Moral
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The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

Poetry Power Delighting
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Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

Truth Joy Pleasure Spirits
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Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

Religion Voice Human Experience
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Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.

Change Tranquil Strength Men
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