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Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much. Ben Hecht
She expected from other people the same opinions and feeling as her own, and she judged their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself. Jane Austen
..The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not. On the question you raised, the effects of wounds vary greatly. Simple wounds which do not break bone are of little account. They sometimes give confidence. Wounds which do extensive bone and nerve damage are not good for writers, nor anybody else."-Interview for the Paris Review, 1956 Ernest Hemingway
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "The general effect was rather as if I had swallowed..."
The general effect was rather as if I had swallowed six-pennorth of dynamite and somebody touched it off inside me. P. G. Wodehouse
Like my maestro, Juan Ribero, she believed that photography and painting are not competing arts but basically different: the painter interpets reality, and the camera captures it. In the former everything is fiction, while the second is the sum of the real plus the sensibility of the photographer. Ribero never allowed me sentimental or exhibitionist tricks-none of this arranging objects or models to look like paintings. He was the enemy of artificial compostion; he did not let me manipulate... Isabel Allende
Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Milan Kundera
It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiast, but it's the truth nevertheless? pictures tell any story more effectively than words. William Moulton Marston
Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists have pondered this for years: there are spiders whose bite can cause the place bitten to rot and to die, sometimes more than a year after it was bitten. As to why spiders do this, the answer is simple. It's because spiders think this is funny, and they don't want you ever to forget them. Neil Gaiman
Milton Friedman quote: "There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from..."
There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves Milton Friedman
Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind. Suzanne Collins
Ian Mcewan quote: "No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic..."
No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process. Ian Mcewan
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Herman Melville
Henry Hazlitt quote: "need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not..."
need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power. Henry Hazlitt
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distiguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational and mere senseless than beasts themselves John Locke
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not done” to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals. George Orwell

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