A Quote by Edward Abbey

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

Edward Abbey

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Author Critic Fungus Oak

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Edward Abbey
American - Author
January 29, 1927 - March 14, 1989

When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise its nose. We can learn the Dharma from the oak tree; therefore, the oak tree is part of our Dharmakaya. We can learn from everything that is around, that is in us.

Nhat Hanh

Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you are a slob.

Crash Davis

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

Nhat Hanh

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

Agnes Repplier

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

Isaac D'Israeli

Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

Mason Cooley

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

Henry Edward Manning

Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.

Bobby Lashley

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

Oscar Wilde

I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I'd rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don't feel superstitious about it.

Bill Nye

George Foreman can knock down an oak tree ... but oak trees don't move.

Angelo Dundee

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

Charles Churchill

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

Isaac D'Israeli

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.