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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Most modern comedy is crap.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.