"Where are the Movies Moving?" in Essays Old and New (1926)
Quoted in: Richard Roud, Godard, introduction (1970).
“Suppression of all harmful influences in literature and the press, stage, art and cinema.”
Source: The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation (1923), p. 56
Source: Interview with The London Paper about Inglourious Basterds http://www.thelondonpaper.com/going-out/whats-new/quentin-tarantino-the-big-interview
“The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.”
Vol. II, p. 69
Mark Twain's Autobiography (1924)
The Well-Tempered Critic, p. 140
"Quotes"
Context: The fundamental act of criticism is a disinterested response to a work of literature in which all one's beliefs, engagements, commitments, prejudices, stampedings of pity and terror, are ordered to be quiet. We are now dealing with the imaginative, not the existential, with the "let this be," not with "this is," and no work of literature is better by virtue of what it says than any other work.
“O you miserable fool, what I shit is better than anything you can do.”
Original: (de) Ach du erbärmlicher Schuft, was ich scheisse ist besser, als was du je gedacht.
Source: Written in the margin of Gottfried Weber's negative review of Wellington's Victory in Beethoven's copy of Cäcilia (August 1825) https://books.google.com/books?id=KBuLcEJpX4sC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CVIII: On the Approaches to Philosophy
