"Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book."

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Source : "Better than Amis?" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2003.

Tibor Fischer

#Book Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Bother Quotes

“I thought of myself as a global citizen.”
“I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than the average man should have a philosophy. For there are certain aspects of the relation between science and society that the scientist can appreciate better than anyone else, and if he does not insist on this significance no one else will, with the result that the relation of science to society will become warped, to the detriment of everybody.”
“Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.”

Source : "Tomorrow when Barbara Walters exits ‘The View,’ we say bye to Baba Wawa" by Marc Silver, www.washingtonpost.com. May 15, 2014.
“You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.”
“He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.”
“I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.”
“We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.”

Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.26, Open Road Media
“I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.”

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