"Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are."

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Jean Rostand

#Criticism Quotes #Critics Quotes

“Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.”
“For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.”

Source : Ken MacLeod (2012). “Learning The World: A novel of first contact”, p.48, Hachette UK
“I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.”
“I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.”
“Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.”
“When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.”
“There's a belief that whatever it is I'm looking for is out there, but I have a really difficult time finding it. Search algorithms alone are falling short in being able to provide real context around information.”
“Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.”

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