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— George Steiner"Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade."
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The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.
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