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

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

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The covers of this book are too far apart. – Ambrose Bierce

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There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behooves any of us,
To say anything about the rest of us. – Anon.

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