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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

E. M. Forster
Thinking, Criticism, Literature
Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "Raison d'ˆtre of Criticism"

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

E. M. Forster
Book, Long, Criticism
and Related Writings (1974) p. 129

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

E. M. Forster
Artist, Creative, Criticism
E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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