If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in such a condescending, casual tone, but he is a 'writer', and a talentless mediocrity!
People like Mr Bubentsov do not understand anything about art and are not very interested in it, but whenever they happen to come across talentless mediocrities they are pitiless and implacable, They are ready to forgive anyone, but not Makar, that eccentric loser with manuscripts lying in his trunk. The gardener damaged the old rubber plant, and ruined lots of expensive plants, and the general does nothing and goes on spending money like water; Mr Bubentsov only got down to work once a month when he was a magistrate, then stammered, muddled up the laws, and spoke a lot of rubbish, but all this is forgiven and not noticed; but there is no way that anyone can pass by the talentless Makar, who writes passable poetry and stories, without saying something offensive. No one cares that the general's sister-in-law slaps the maids' cheeks, and swears like a trooper when she is playing cards, that the priest's wife never pays up when she loses, and the landowner Flyugin stole a a dog from the landower Sivobrazov, but the fact that Our Province returned a bad story to Makar recently is know to the whole district and has provoked mockery, long conversations and indignation, while Makar Denisych is already being referred to as old Makarka.
If someone does not write the way required, they never try to explain what is wrong, but just say:
'That bastard has gone and written another load of rubbish!
I have learned to be kinder to myself, to imagine that I am my own best friend, whispering comforting words in my ear and drowning out the voices of Self-Doubt and Self-Criticism. I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn’t.
Roz SavageTags: kindness criticism achievement self-doubt best-friends
What someone else thinks of you is not what you have to think of yourself.
Bianca FrazierTags: opinion criticism bianca-frazier
لو ترجمنا بعض تراثنا الشعري الى لغة حديثة لما حصلنا منه الا على سواد الوجه
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Tags: criticism
الواقع أن المال خير من الأدب
وان الادب يطلب من أجل المال
ولكن الادباء كثيرون وكلهم يريدون ان يصلوا الى ما وصل اليه البحتري والأخطل من رغد العيش
فاذا عجزوا عن ذلك أخذوا يسلّون انفسهم بأن الادب خير من المال
ولو كانوا فيما يقولونه صادقين لما اشتكوا من سوء حظهم او ملأوا الدنيا صراخا وأنينا
Tags: criticism
لست اريد بهذا ان ادافع عن المجلات الخليعة انما اريد ان ابيّن المفارقة المفضوحة التي يقع بها بعض ادبائنا حين يحتقرون الصور الخليعة بينما هم يحترمون الشعر الخليع
علي الوردي Ali Al-WardiTags: criticism
كلما كان الظلم الاجتماعي أشد كان بناء المساجد وتشجيع الوعظ أكثر
علي الوردي Ali Al-WardiTags: criticism
بمجرد أن يسمع المسلم حديث النبي او يحضر مجلسه أو يسلم عليه
او يقول له "الله بالخير" صار صحابيا ودخل في قائمة المقدسين
Tags: criticism
ان السبب الجوهري في اضمحلال العلوم والاداب العربية كان بلا ريب تغلب الجنس التركي
طه حسينTags: criticism
I did say that to deny the existence of evil spirits, or to deny the existence of the devil, is to deny the truth of the New Testament; and that to deny the existence of these imps of darkness is to contradict the words of Jesus Christ.
I did say that if we give up the belief in devils we must give up the inspiration of the Old and New Testaments, and we must give up the divinity of Christ. Upon that declaration I stand, because if devils do not exist, then Jesus Christ was mistaken, or we have not in the New Testament a true account of what he said and of what he pretended to do.
If the New Testament gives a true account of his words and pretended actions, then he did claim to cast out devils. That was his principal business. That was his certificate of divinity, casting out devils. That authenticated his mission and proved that he was superior to the hosts of darkness.
Now, take the devil out of the New Testament, and you also take the veracity of Christ; with that veracity you take the divinity; with that divinity you take the atonement, and when you take the atonement, the great fabric known as Christianity becomes a shapeless ruin.
The Christians now claim that Jesus was God. If he was God, of course the devil knew that fact, and yet, according to this account, the devil took the omnipotent God and placed him upon a pinnacle of the temple, and endeavored to induce him to dash himself against the earth…
Think of it! The devil – the prince of sharpers – the king of cunning – the master of finesse, trying to bribe God with a grain of sand that belonged to God!
Casting out devils was a certificate of divinity.
Is there in all the religious literature of the world anything more grossly absurd than this?
These devils, according to the Bible, were of various kinds – some could speak and hear, others were deaf and dumb. All could not be cast out in the same way. The deaf and dumb spirits were quite difficult to deal with. St. Mark tells of a gentleman who brought his son to Christ. The boy, it seems, was possessed of a dumb spirit, over which the disciples had no control. “Jesus said unto the spirit: ‘Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee come out of him, and enter no more into him.’” Whereupon, the deaf spirit (having heard what was said) cried out (being dumb) and immediately vacated the premises.
The ease with which Christ controlled this deaf and dumb spirit excited the wonder of his disciples, and they asked him privately why they could not cast that spirit out. To whom he replied: “This kind can come forth by nothing but prayer and fasting.” Is there a Christian in the whole world who would believe such a story if found in any other book?
The trouble is, these pious people shut up their reason, and then open their Bible.
Tags: reason scholarship hypocrisy criticism absurdity critical falsehoods
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