"A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion."

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I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

— John Updike