Judith Crist Quotes

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• Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year…
• The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.
• What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit…
• All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.
• Amid all the easily loved darlings of Charlie Brown's circle, obstreperous Lucy holds a special place in my heart. She fusses and fumes and she…
• The one and original lovable monster is lost amid all the hydraulic manipulations in what now emerges as the story of a dumb blonde who…
• To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in…
• Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room without…
• In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television…
• It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice…
• Happiness is too many things these days for anyone lo wish il on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year…
• To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and ninety percent gall and egomania in…
• Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.

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