Critic Quotes

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
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