Quotes About Critique

I have nine armchairs from which I can be critical.

It takes so much effort to make anything, any type of art. I try to find the good in everything; if I don't like it, fine, no big deal, but I don't really want to voice that online.

Attending a book group is always a salutary experience for a writer. There's no guarantee that the people there will have enjoyed your book, and, as anyone who has taken part in a book group will know, half the fun is in ripping a book you haven't liked to shreds.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

Some of it can, of course. The new satirical shows

Religion is opium for the masses

The kinds of things that I would say on Nightline, you can't say in one sentence because they depart from standard religion. If you want to repeat the religion, you can get away with it between two commercials. If you want to say something that questions the religion, you're expected to give evidence, and that you can't do between two commercials. So therefore you lack concision, so therefore you can't talk.

I started with reading Chomsky and slowly became very interested in anything that had to do with Israel/Palestine. Reading Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Kanafani, John Berger, Tanya Reinhart, Ilan Pappé, Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Kurt Vonnegut, Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein . . . all became part of my daily routine.

Si nos tomamos la molestia de distinguir realidad y doctrina en el sistema neoliberal, encontramos, en suma, que los principios políticos y económicos vigentes en la realidad son muy diferentes a los que se proclaman.

But the imperial mentality is so deeply embedded in Western culture that this travesty passes without criticism, even notice.

Recently I saw a movie in which people were eating take-out pizza in 1948 and it drove me nuts. There was no take-out pizza in 1948. There was barely any pizza, and barely any takeout.

You'll feel better after you do a mile or two.' 'Why?' From her prone position, Emma threw up her hands. 'Who says? Who decided that people all of a sudden have to do miles every damn day, or that twisting themselves into unnatural shapes is good for them? I think it's the people who sell this hideous equipment, and the ones who design all the cute little outfits like the one you're wearing.

I sometimes think I should have titled this book 'Aristotle: The Genius Who Was Wrong About Fucking Everything'.

We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.

What you don't learn in art theory is how too big a compliment can hurt more than a slap to the face.

I refuse to give readers an uplifting faux experience engineered to comfort them and perpetuate the sociopolitical and economic status quo. Who died and made you Bertolt Brecht?

It was beautiful. We were selling rich women their own fat asses back to them.

Vaktimizin çoÄŸunu baÅŸkalar?n?n yaratt??? ÅŸeyleri yarg?layarak geçirdiÄŸimizden, kendimiz hiçbir ÅŸey yaratamad?k. Sanat asla mutluluktan doÄŸmaz.

We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own." Out

I'm disgusted with how people get themselves to look beautiful; I'm much more fascinated with the other side.

Proust is long-winded, precious, and a bit of an old woman

Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.

She had influenced him more than any person he had ever known. And always in this way coming before him without his wishing it, cool, ladylike, critical; or ravishing, romantic.