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— Gore Vidal"Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism."
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Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.
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If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
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