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The covers of this book are too far apart.

Mots clés humor attributed-no-source books wit criticism

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Joseph Heller

Mots clés freedom freedom-of-thought criticism independence

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People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

Mots clés criticism

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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Flannery O'Connor

Mots clés humor writing criticism

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I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

Mark Twain

Mots clés reading writing criticism austen

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Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?

Neil Postman

Mots clés laughter criticism media dystopia

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Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?

Connie Willis

Mots clés writers inspiration on-writing criticism conceit creative-process critique reviewing reviews

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Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner - "Mr. Kafka don't eat eggs.

Franz Kafka

Mots clés humor criticism scepticism

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Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.

Alfred Tennyson