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165. Criticism; Publicity
When the people criticised and answered his pamphlets, papers, &c. "Why now, these fellows are only advertising my book (he would say); it is surely better a man should be abused than forgotten."
Piozzi: Anecdotes
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350. Criticism; Publicity
"A man who tells me my play is very bad, is less my enemy than he who lets it die in silence. A man, whose business it is to be talked of, is much helped by being attacked."
Boswell: Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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899. Publicity
"It is advantageous to an authour, that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends."
Boswell: Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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1,220. Controversy; Publicity
[Johnson's] Taxation No Tyranny being mentioned, [Johnson] said "I think I have not been attacked enough for it. Attack is the re-action; I never think I have hit hard, unless it rebounds."
Boswell: Life of Johnson
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