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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. – Nelson Algren

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. – Walter Benjamin

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There is so much good in the worst of us,
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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. – Proverb

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