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Criticism Can Never Instruct Or Benefit You. Its Chief Effect Is That Of A Telegram With Dubious News. Praise Leaves No Glow Behind, For It Is A Writer's Habit To Remember Nothing Good Of Himself. I Have Usually Forgotten Those Who Have Admired My Work, And Seldom Anyone Who Disliked It. Obviously, This Is Because Praise Is Never Enough And Censure Always Too Much.

People's Sex Habits Are As Well Known In Hollywood As Their Political Opinions, And Much Less Criticized.

The Movies Are An Eruption Of Trash That Has Lamed The American Mind And Retarded Americans From Becoming Cultured People.

Bad Writing Is Not Easier Than Good Writing. It's Just As Hard To Make A Toilet Seat As It Is A Castle Window. Only The View Is Different.

Trying To Determine What Is Going On In The World By Reading Newspapers Is Like Trying To Tell The Time By Watching The Second Hand Of A Clock.