Mason Cooley Quotes About Critics

Quotes about: Critics

• Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

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  Wonder, Deconstruction, Critics

• Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

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  Delight, Literature, Scolding

• Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

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  Believe, Literature, Lasts

• When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

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  Poetry, Machines, Bees

• Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

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  Art, Criticism, Critics

• The critic roams through culture, looking for prey.

  Mason Cooley

  Criticism, Culture, Prey

• A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

  Mason Cooley

  Criticism, Important, Use

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