W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Criticism
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
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But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.
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People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
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