"A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature."

-- Lawrence Durrell

#Criticism Quotes #Literature Quotes #Worms Quotes

“The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.”
“I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance.”
“But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
“Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird”
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.”
“Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.”

Source : "Fat is a prejudice issue" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2012.
“Most people canâ€™t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.”

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