"When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable."

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Judith Martin

#Criticism Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Flaws Quotes

“A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.”
“Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.”
“There is such a thing as genius, and these are people who do not have a formal disability, DSM-IV-type. They may have liberal eccentricities or quirks in their personality, but they don't rise to the level of a disability.”

Source : "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.
“In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million.”
“A gift of truth is the gift of love.”
“My choices were never wrong.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.”

Source : Donna VanLiere (2012). “The Good Dream”, p.125, Macmillan

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