05-25-2025, 02:20 AM
Mark Twain on Jane Austin:
I havnt any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austin, but her book madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'pride and prejudice' I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
Oscar Wilde on Alexander Pope:
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
Voltaire on Jean-Jacque Rousseau:
I have read, monsieur, your new book against the human race. I thank you for it. No one has ever used so much intellect to prove us beasts. A desire seizes us to walking four paws when we read your work. Nevertheless, as it is more than sixty years since i lost the habit, I feel, unfortunately, that it is impossible for me to resume it
W. H. Auden on Edgar Allen Poe
An unmanly sort of man whose love-life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.
I havnt any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austin, but her book madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'pride and prejudice' I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
Oscar Wilde on Alexander Pope:
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
Voltaire on Jean-Jacque Rousseau:
I have read, monsieur, your new book against the human race. I thank you for it. No one has ever used so much intellect to prove us beasts. A desire seizes us to walking four paws when we read your work. Nevertheless, as it is more than sixty years since i lost the habit, I feel, unfortunately, that it is impossible for me to resume it
W. H. Auden on Edgar Allen Poe
An unmanly sort of man whose love-life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.
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