Mark Twain Quotes About Critics
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This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.
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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
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No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.
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The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.
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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.
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How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.
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It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.
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It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden
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One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself
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