Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result
We cannot always shine and play to our very best, but as long as we win, it doesn't matter.
There's no right or wrong, success or failure.
I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way.
Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.
I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.
I judge people by their own principles..not by my own
What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.