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

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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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All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. – Anon.

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To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – Charles Baudelaire

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