Critique Seeker Pillows

Learning curve: 'Your book was crap!'

'I hate to be so skeptical, but I still think the seance business is a hoax!'

Reading my Critics

"And on the eighth day, God sat back with a scotch and soda and waited for the critical reviews."

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

Feedback should be sought for genuine reasons, not because you want compliments. . .

"Never mind, Harry. Just remember, the 'Saturday Review' loved it."

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

Another Turning Point in History. Oh, the heck with it -- I'll never get these antlers right. Mickey Moose.

"Mom, please! I'm a married woman whose friends have been reviewed favourably by the New York Times."

'It's cutting edge theatre.'

"Heads up! It's another tidal wave of overwrought critical hyperbole!"

'I take it that the birthday cake is for this old trout you just served me?'

"Did you read my review on Amazon? Four out of four people found it helpful."

A man on a giant book poses as Rodin's The Thinker.

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

Filling the Missile Gap

Final words on gravestones.

The new Physics

'He knows everything about art. But he doesn't know what he likes.'

Learn to Be a Critic In The Privacy Of Your Own Home With The Apex Correspondence School Of Criticism!

'Bloomsbury Group, members only'

"Perhaps you wouln't have declared so many places 'worth a detour' if you'd held the map right way up!"

"Thank you, Mr. Mulvaney, but what we're really looking for is someone with talent."

An acceptable level of TV violence.

Constructive Criticism 50c.

Dog writes a review: 'A sublime book, I devoured it in one sitting ...'

"Hang on! - we've possibly go another couple of films left in here!!"

Seamus Heaney

"You'll never believe who's here."

"Now this is what I call an honest little pub!"

Samuel Beckett

The Real Russian history

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"The audience is really classy tonight, they are throwing quail eggs."