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The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not strong enough to appreciate in what the good succeeds. To be without discrimination is to be unable to praise. The critic who lets you know that he always looks for something to like in works he discusses is not telling you anything about the works or about art; he is saying 'see what a nice person I am. Brigid Brophy
I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh. Virginia Woolf
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay..."
They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds. Kim Stanley Robinson
Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful. God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as any bird. They're as mysterious as any animal on earth. No one knows for sure how long they live or what impulsesexcept for hungerthey respond to. There are more than two hundred and fifty species of shark, and everyone is different from every other one. Peter Benchley
Even the intellectual crowd will have none of me. Physically, I look like one of them. Graying at the temples, I walk with a slight limp and wear thick glasses. Groucho Marx
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Cory Doctorow
Haruki Murakami quote: "It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness..."
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. Haruki Murakami
Ray Bradbury quote: "My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the..."
My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous."Men like that always are. Ray Bradbury
Rene Descartes quote: "The reading of all good books is like conversation with the..."
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. Rene Descartes
J. K. Rowling quote: "Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect..."
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. J. K. Rowling
Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not. Dan Millman
The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a man starting a fire shields the flame. When Sarah was about to die childless, the Fear gave her a son. When Abraham was about to slaughter the son, the Fear gave him the ram. He is always shielding us like a guttering wick, Laughter said, because the fire he is trying to start with us is a fire that the whole world will live to warm its hands at. It is a fire in the dark that... Frederick Buechner
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather. That comes before his eye. This is a practise. As full of labour as a wise man's art. For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit. William Shakespeare
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly. Umberto Eco
Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winterthat only by wintering through it will your heart survive. Rainer Maria Rilke

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