止谤莫如自修

张恨水先生曾写过一篇《为人应当接受批评》，他说：“生平很少和人打笔墨官司，就是人家指出我的名姓来教训一顿，我也不曾回复一个字。这样做，我并非怯懦，也并非过分的容忍。我有个感想，我错了，止谤莫如自修。我不错，最好借事实来答复。这是一个办法，也许不适合他人，但至少我自己，在做人上纠正了不少错误。而三十年来的写作生涯，略有寸进，一大半也就是根据别人的批评而得的。” 恨水先生对待批评的态度，很值得当今文化人学习。

There is no better way to stop critiques by improving yourself

Mr. Henshui Zhang has written an article We should accept critiques. He says in the article: “I rarely argue with people on paper. Even if they specify my name to give me lessons, I had never replied. I am neither being a coward nor putting up with it by doing that. I come to the point that, if I am wrong, there is no better way to stop the critiques by improving myself; if I wasn't, then the truth will show it. This is a way, it might not be the way for others, but it is for me. It helped me made many wrongs right when conducting myself (/to be a man). To add to that, my thirty years of writing, good or bad, also largely depends on other people’s critiques. Mr. Zhang’s attitude towards critiques is really worth learning from.

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