"Criticism ultimately at some degree is about the writer and not the subject. It's very easy if everybody else says, "He's a genius," to echo that, but then you're not functioning as a critic or as a writer in any meaningful way. You've got to take the risk of being wrong."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Gary Giddins

#Meaningful Quotes #Risk Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“Alma: I rather suspect her of being in love with him. Martin: Her own husband? Monstrous! What a selfish woman!”
“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.”
“The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.”
“I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.”
“It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically informed. This way of thinking about philosophical theorizing makes sense of how philosophy might be a legitimate intellectual activity, in a way that a good deal of the armchair philosophy, I believe, cannot.”
“Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a lake, 'Twill form in circles round succeeding round; Each wider than the first.”
“I just wanted to see how it felt to shoot Grandma.”

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